Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: toshiba: ps3_gelic_wireless: Remove driver using deprecated API wext
From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Jan 06 2025 - 03:07:06 EST
On Sat, 2025-01-04 at 05:15 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> I would assume that once removing CFG80211_WEXT becomes an option, we
> can just put the remaining parts of net/wireless/wext-*.c into both
> ps3_gelic and ipw2x00, duplicating and then simplifying the
> implementation. As far as I can tell, there is very little that is
> actually shared between the two anyway.
Indeed.
Note that net/wireless/wext-{core,proc,priv}.c are not even related to
CFG80211_WEXT (wext-{compat,sme}.c are), and just form the core wext
code that can be treated completely orthogonal and independent of
cfg80211. This driver doesn't even use CFG80211_WEXT code at all.
johannes