Subject: Re: [RFC] Alternate WE-21 support (core API)

From: "John W. Linville" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:29:23 -0400

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:30:53PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:55:44PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

> > + * 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?

> 	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.

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
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