Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT"

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 09:23 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Yours is the theoretical, hopefully-forward-looking one where we still
> expect the driver to actually be modified to take advantage of the new
> frameworks (which is independent of wext support towards userspace). In
> that scenario, yes, it should use more until it uses all, and then it
> can stop concerning itself with wext (which would be a win because
> driver/wext interaction is always finicky) (*)

I just realized that in order to actually do this you'd have to revert
04b0c5c6995103eef56391c163e970ab1f03b59f first, but that would be pretty
simple.

johannes

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