Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 14:41 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On 2/8/07, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:38:02PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > On 2/8/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > > >On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 07:54 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > >> Btw, if we submit cfg80211 for inclusion there should be at least one
> > > >patch
> > > >> in the series actually converts a driver to use it.  Both to make this
> > > >> code not dead and give people and example on how to use the cfg80211
> > > >> infrastructure.
> > > >
> > > >I guess I could make softmac use it.
> > >
> > > Another idea here is we can provide a configfs frontend to cfg80211
> > > therefore any device which implements cfg80211 will automagically have
> > > a userspace frontend (/configfs/wireless/foo) ready to test cfg80211.
> > > With this we wouldn't have to wait for the next userspace nl80211
> > > application to start testing cfg80211 directly (without wireless
> > > extensions compat). A configfs frontend can also allow more rapid
> > > development of userspace interfaces to configure wireless devices
> > > through cfg80211. Comments?
> >
> > Luis,
> >
> > You have mentioned this before, and FWIW I think it is a decent idea.
> > Let's see some code! :-)
> 
> I know, I know, talk is cheap, trust me, I abide by this motto every
> day. I actually wanted to just code this up and send this as part of
> my comment but do have other responsibilities I have to attend to
> first. I figured I'd throw it out though in case someone who does have
> time is willing to pick it up as I think it would be great for us.

Last time I tried configfs didn't support the group commit stuff yet so
it'd be only useful for *showing* things rather than changing...

johannes

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