From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:59838 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946606AbXBIPq5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:46:57 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "John W. Linville" , Christoph Hellwig , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43e72e890702081141j168da47i421f4fe578a08735@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070131013717.GA28076@tuxdriver.com> <20070207004626.GA23096@tuxdriver.com> <20070207004747.GB23096@tuxdriver.com> <20070207004832.GC23096@tuxdriver.com> <20070207004929.GD23096@tuxdriver.com> <20070207075420.GB14703@infradead.org> <1170940386.4385.49.camel@johannes.berg> <43e72e890702081038k1d4f226eocf28c5faf6b79dc5@mail.gmail.com> <20070208185050.GA6303@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890702081141j168da47i421f4fe578a08735@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-n547i6SsE2Z7N0mSai5y" Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:43:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1171035836.4520.14.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-n547i6SsE2Z7N0mSai5y Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 14:41 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On 2/8/07, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:38:02PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > On 2/8/07, Johannes Berg 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 cfg802= 11 > > > >> 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 hav= e > > > 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! :-) >=20 > 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 --=-n547i6SsE2Z7N0mSai5y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBFzJa8/ETPhpq3jKURAmnDAKCxORCgiVf/eiGoEpVtZDYJxuWuCQCfdcBW vz8T3ojpyVsMK/vjYgmnDj8= =GIi3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-n547i6SsE2Z7N0mSai5y--