On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:29:23AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:30:53PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:55:44PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
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+ * V20 to V21
+ * ----------
+ * - Remove (struct net_device *)->get_wireless_stats()
+ * - Change length in ESSID and NICK to strlen() instead of strlen()+1
+ * - Add IW_RETRY_SHORT/IW_RETRY_LONG retry modifiers
+ * - Add explicit flag to tell stats are in 802.11k RCPI : IW_QUAL_RCPI
Personally, I would also add this :
+ * - Power/Retry relative values no longer * 100000
Three reason :
1) It's a cleanup and does not add any new feature
2) It does not change the rest of the patches
3) Userspace part has already gone in distro, not
including this bit would mean breaking userspace.
Is there any code that corresponds to that? Or does the comment
simply indicate policy?
There is no code in the core of the WE, so it only indicates
policy. But, I believe policy change need to be documented.
On the other hand you will find code in the tiacx patch.
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The other bits can be included at a later time ;-)
Well, maybe. But, I think we should now consider WE to be in
maintenance mode. I think nl80211 is the future, as long as Johannes
delivers.
We'll see. WE has been supposed to be replaced any time soon
for the last 3 years. And I don't believe nl80211 will address legacy
driver and non-802.11 hardware.
Thanks,
John
Thanks, and have fun...
Jean