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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:09:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170986960.2873.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070208195526.GA5319@infradead.org>

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 19:55 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:38:02PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > >> 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.
> 
> Huh?  We already have a wext fronted to nicely test cfg80211, what we
> need are backends.  In addition to that I think we should agree on
> one primary userspace configuration method for the future instead of
> adding lots of them just because it's so easy.  If the public opinion
> has changed 180 degrees and configs is preferred over nl80211 that's
> fine by me as long as the implementation is sane..

I'd prefer to keep the netlink based API for use from userspace tools
like NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant...  configfs is nice for scripts
and screenscrapers but not really appropriate for desktop stuff.

Dan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31  1:37 [RFC] cfg80211 merge John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:38 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211 John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:39   ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] wireless: move wext to net/wireless/ John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:41     ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client John W. Linville
2007-01-31 14:40     ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] wireless: move wext to net/wireless/ Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-31 19:00       ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-31  2:46   ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211 Michael Wu
2007-01-31 17:37     ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 20:24       ` Michael Buesch
2007-02-01 10:18     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 17:45       ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 17:49         ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 18:14           ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 18:14             ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 18:29               ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-05 18:29                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 19:13                 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-05 19:23               ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 19:24                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 19:55                   ` Michael Wu
2007-02-09 16:14                     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 18:16           ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31  2:48 ` [RFC] cfg80211 merge Jouni Malinen
2007-01-31 17:29   ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 18:32     ` John W. Linville
2007-01-31 19:25       ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 20:07         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-31 20:44           ` John W. Linville
2007-01-31 21:06             ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-31 23:54               ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-01 13:07                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-01 14:04                   ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-01 14:11                     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-02 18:18                       ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-03 17:37                         ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-01 14:12                     ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-07  0:46 ` [RFC v2] " John W. Linville
2007-02-07  0:47   ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] wireless: add cfg80211 John W. Linville
     [not found]     ` <20070207004832.GC23096@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-07  0:49       ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client John W. Linville
2007-02-07  7:54         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 13:13           ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 18:38             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-08 18:50               ` John W. Linville
2007-02-08 19:41                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-09 15:43                   ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 19:55               ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 21:56                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-09  2:09                 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2007-02-07  7:35     ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] wireless: add cfg80211 Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 13:12       ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 19:17         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-07 14:39   ` [RFC v2] cfg80211 merge John W. Linville

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