Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] d80211: change the cookie to be opaque

From: "John W. Linville" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 23:15:01 -0500

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:46:31AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > Ok, that one was wrong. But what is it doing in the public API? We need
> > to remove it from the public API and leave struct net_device *dev as the
> > parameter. adm8211 actually uses it and increases the tx_fifo_error
> > counter, but that's a bit strange.
> 
> Fixed, and since, as always, netdev doesn't like my patches, they're
> here instead:
> 
> http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/d80211-mdev-cleanup/
> 
> I also added d80211-reduce-mdev.patch which reduces stupid mdev usage,
> but see the description in the patch itself.

403 Forbidden (shouldn't that be Verboten? :-)

FWIW, I have the other 6 patches on the 'pending' branch of
wireless-dev.  Driver authors, please proceed accordingly.

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
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