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

Daniel Mack daniel at caiaq.de
Tue Mar 30 06:50:29 EDT 2010


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:49:13AM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > If there's any better solution, I'd happily test it.
> 
> Not from me, unfortunately. I'm not really interested into getting full 
> cfg80211 into Libertas. That is, until either _one_ of this two options 
> happen:
> 
> * someone that actually uses/wants the proprietary Libertas mesh steps  
> forward and says "We'll look after this and make it work with cfg80211"
> * we remove the proprietary Libertas mesh support
> 
> That is: I won't work on Libertas mesh. I can't justify this time investment 
> with my employer for something that I'll never need. For my device, my own 
> version of Libertas + cfg80211 (without any WEXT anymore) works quite nice.
> 
> 
> So, if neither of the above things happens, then Libertas will work for the 
> rest of the world with WEXT, as it did before.

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?

Daniel




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