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Re: linux/802_11.h header

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Subject: Re: linux/802_11.h header
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:15:07 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> > Because my question is not why atmel_cs uses a header it doesn't need
> > (the answer would be likely "oops" or "just in case").
> >
> > My question is why we have two headers for the same purpose in the
> > kernel and what are we going to do with the header that is not used.
>
>       At some point, we had the headers of the old aironet4500 driver
> which looked like this one, but I don't think this driver was ever moved
> to the wireless directory, so this is why I think this file was added
> with the Atmel driver.

Right.  aironet4500 included linux/802_11.h.  Since aironet4500 was
removed in 2.6 kernels, linux/802_11.h should also be removed.  I really
don't want anybody to find this file and use definitions from it rather
than from ieee802_11.h.

The patch has been sent to Simon.

By the way, ieee802_11.h could be "promoted" to include/linux or
include/net with trivial changes to the drivers that use it.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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