From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]:21676 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752397AbXBHSiD (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:38:03 -0500 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i21so587009wra for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:38:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43e72e890702081038k1d4f226eocf28c5faf6b79dc5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:38:02 -0500 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1170940386.4385.49.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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