Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Intersil Prism54 wireless driver

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:29:59 -0500

Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:55:48PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>+MODULE_PARM(init_mode, "i");
>>+MODULE_PARM_DESC(init_mode,
>>+		 "Set card mode:\n0: Auto\n1: Ad-Hoc\n2: Managed Client (Default)\n3: Master / Access Point\n4: Repeater (Not supported yet)\n5: Secondary (Not supported yet)\n6: Monitor");
>>
>>	Please use module_param
> 
> 
> 	I would even say that this is useless because the driver
> support WE, and WE scripts set the mode before the card is up.

module_param() is a type-safe interface roughly identical to 
MODULE_PARM().  Therefore, if MODULE_PARM() works, module_param() works 
also.

>>diff -Naur -X /home/mcgrof/lib/dontdiff linux-2.6.3/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_wds.c linux-2.6.3-prism54/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_wds.c
>>--- linux-2.6.3/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_wds.c	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
>>+++ linux-2.6.3-prism54/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_wds.c	Thu Mar  4 02:00:01 2004
>>
>>	WDS doesn't belong into a driver but in higher-level code.
> 
> 
> 	The big 802.11 reorg can only happen when HostAP is in the
> kernel.

ISTR it needed some cleaning up before it could go in.

Further, in Linux, there is _never_ a requirement that "this driver be 
included before we can clean up."  You can start the re-org any time you 
wish.  Out-of-tree maintainers can follow the re-org, sometimes more easily.

	Jeff

P.S. I still need to look at your netlink thing.  Seems like a decent 
direction.