[PATCH] net/wireless/libertas: do not call wiphy_unregister() w/o wiphy_register()

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Thu Apr 8 15:03:58 EDT 2010


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:20:08PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:04:33AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 12:59 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > > > I don't get your point. The patch I submitted fixes an Ooops in the
> > > > driver, due to wrong handling of an API. What does that have to do with
> > > > principle discussions about the frameworks in use?
> > > 
> > > I asked if there is a better method, and you said that you would test a better 
> > > solution. That means that someone else should make a better solution.
> > > 
> > > I just pointed out that I won't be the one who creates the better solution, 
> > > because for fundamental reasons I don't see the libertas+cfg80211 approach 
> > > going forward. That issue has nothing to do with you or your patch, so please 
> > > don't feel offended or confused.
> > 
> > Fine; just rip out the mesh code and do the vanilla cfg80211 conversion
> > for infra & adhoc, and we'll add the mesh code back later.  I don't have
> > time to do the cfg80211 bits, neither do the OLPC guys (AFAIK), so lets
> > take advantage of your willingness to do this and just move the driver
> > forward.
> 
> Someone post a feature removal patch, please?

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