Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Don't discriminate against 802.11b drivers

From: "John W. Linville" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:06:54 -0400

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:19:23PM -0400, Michael Wu wrote:
> On Monday 15 May 2006 07:37, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > This issue can be easily solved by not masking hw_modes by
> > valid_hw_modes in ieee80211_ioctl_prism2_param and
> > ieee80211_precalc_modes. Just check (hw_modes & valid_hw_modes) instead
> > of hw_modes in ieee80211_sta_scan_timer.
> >
> > And yes, hw_modes is a confusing name. It should be named
> > hw_modes_mask_disabled_by_user or so. Maybe at least some better comment
> > about this in ieee80211_i.h won't be a bad idea.
> >
> Okay, how about this? Instead of adding valid_hw_modes, I added enabled_modes, 
> and replaced all instances of local->hw_modes with local->enabled_modes. 
> local->hw_modes now really means what modes are supported by the hardware.

Are we satisfied w/ this patch?  If so, please repost the patch after
cleaning-up the changelog according to the rules here:

	http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
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