On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:56:50AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:51:31PM -0700, Michael Wu wrote: > > On Monday 31 July 2006 13:31, John W. Linville wrote: > > > As usual I'll depend on Jiri to merge d80211 stack patches, then > > > send me a pull request. If I apply your "Switch drivers to d80211" > > > series now, that will undoutedly cause a breakage when Jiri asks me > > > to pull this later. > > > > > Yeah, there needs to be a new (and smaller) set of patches to switch > > drivers > > to the d80211.h header. > > NACK again. Driver should continue to use the ieee80211.h header forever.
I don't anticipate the d80211 naming conventions to ever make it out of wireless-dev. By the time we are ready to push that stuff upstream, we will have cleaned-up our messes. This does raise the question: Should we start taking patches to wireless-dev that migrate the current (i.e. ieee80211/softmac) stack out of the kernel? This would include (re-)moving the current stack code, pointing non-migrated drivers (ipw2[12]00, zd1211rw) at the old code, moving drivers out of drivers/net/wireless/d80211 up a level, removing the softmac-based version of the bcm43xx driver, etc. Are we ready for this? Who wants to be the wireless janitor? Whether Michael's patches come before or after this clean-up really doesn't matter. I'd probably rather have them now. It only complicates the migration slightly, while accomplishing something useful. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
