Re: What happened to linux/802_11.h?

From: James Ketrenos
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 20:41:47 EST


Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:38:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:


Joshua Kwan <jkwan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The IPW2100 driver
(http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net) uses its definitions and now won't build
against -bk or -mm kernel source.


Jean, should we restore 802_11.h, or is there some alternative file which
that driver should be using?



Well, Jeff explicitely said that we should not care about
drivers outside the kernel ;-)
Seriously, I see three solutions :
1) Convert ipw2100 to using drivers/net/wireless/ieee802_11.h,
extend this header as necessary


This is the path I was planning to take when I read about 802_11.h possibly going away a while ago. The file finally going away will just raise the priority of that effort a bit :) Changing the code to use the headers in drivers/net/wireless isn't a big task -- I'll put the change into the next snapshot of ipw2100.

Thanks,
James
(of ipw2100.sf.net)
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