From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f210.google.com ([209.85.218.210]:56589 "EHLO mail-bw0-f210.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751319AbZIXTOx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:14:53 -0400 Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so1558324bwz.37 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:14:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890909241132r2c684de2i9e80537bc3d13c63@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090924180048.14503.9579.stgit@tikku> <20090924180242.14503.11148.stgit@tikku> <43e72e890909241132r2c684de2i9e80537bc3d13c63@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:14:55 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add firmware and hardware version to wiphy From: Kalle Valo To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: >> From: Kalle Valo >> >> It's useful to provide firmware and hardware version to user space and have a >> generic interface to retrieve them. Users can provide the version information >> in bug reports etc. >> >> Add fields for firmware and hardware version to struct wiphy and return >> them to user space in NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY reply. > > Wow that was quick :) Yeah, it's easy to hack here at Plumbers :D >>        NL80211_ATTR_PID, >> >> +       NL80211_ATTR_FW_VERSION, >> +       NL80211_ATTR_HW_VERSION, >> + > > Some kdoc on this would be nice. Definitely. I'll add it in v2 if the implementation is ok otherwise. >>        /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */ >> >>        __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST, >> diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h >> index 3d874c6..de3da19 100644 >> --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h >> +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h >> @@ -1070,6 +1070,8 @@ struct cfg80211_ops { >>  * and registration/helper functions >>  */ >> >> +#define CFG80211_VERSION_LEN 32 > > Probably best to just remove this or at least make this not just > CFG80211_VERSION_LEN, seems like this is related to cfg80211's version > somehow. The length is used four time so I would not want to remove it. Maybe rename to CFG80211_FWHW_VERSION_LEN? Kalle