From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751420AbWAFM0d (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:26:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751339AbWAFM0c (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:26:32 -0500 Received: from sipsolutions.net ([66.160.135.76]:61444 "EHLO sipsolutions.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750771AbWAFM0c (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:26:32 -0500 Subject: Re: State of the Union: Wireless From: Johannes Berg To: Dominik Brodowski Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060106114620.GA23707@isilmar.linta.de> References: <20060106042218.GA18974@havoc.gtf.org> <1136547084.4037.41.camel@localhost> <20060106114620.GA23707@isilmar.linta.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pn4ZYF1I2OiS/FpE2WQN" Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:26:24 +0100 Message-Id: <1136550384.4037.48.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-pn4ZYF1I2OiS/FpE2WQN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > From someone who has no idea at all (yet) about 802.11: why character > device, and not sysfs or configfs files? Like As Michael already said -- there's no real reason for that. We were just brainstorming. The /dev idea seemed like a good plan at first, but then it isn't fixed. What you suggested below does look useful too. Coming back to the point Michael already raised: the overarching idea is to get rid of the net_dev for the 'master' device, even if the underlying hardware supports only a single virtual device (which might then be created by the driver automatically) I'll move the wiki pages a bit to accomodate different models, please check in a few minutes. johannes --=-pn4ZYF1I2OiS/FpE2WQN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (SIP Solutions) iQIVAwUAQ75h7qVg1VMiehFYAQJ9hRAAhS1iOJEYYhn1Mcm/D0N2EkAH99y7A3Fl DJw0+37syAHVeyti+jntkCWVG1WEkawe6wMeh77deumRTc3fgonlTVKXRIpgVUMJ lPbKpblVaSQrq26cjupuSBRCS5Hu6R2Lj2kFWrilGH9aa311G9Zs60I4rPlf8GG3 cETYSP8CsizXY17mrn+OUAHOT6fg2BOwJDsownEzI39vdYIc2JX/L6VD+uPkf1L9 Hn/Ga+qiZxG0wgWiHV883h4XLAOwwoHtnTk/iu/ONUss7PYaO9SMf+fJqUel1SFd b5i2xQbKrWhWSIiUdNsPA1LPQhTAIcLrovEaiEVSV7uOtDsG5dPCszju2zDBRSAm d5ZqUx3DDDzUcPwH0lpDNXFwvhVgNSCNZqv4qTiPH4PClEBqci4Lrs4DMzZFiTU1 btPEaJ2o7Zrw8y0QrIrd7RIvwGgin8M8Jz67Qv4M5CA8DEyTJZvSKCQcYQb1MweY ovUTgmzgQN4GWFVvJsmbLFoKGuaTtRw9qRTX1d4R0eCSLA4pFV+xu3RagXQ/WzOL VSPRSujxvuxQRqzWZlHM9R88j/ImSxKW5mk0MXGacUP8kPdT39XHG+IvYnQ3URvZ wYUQa3cYUoiQ0qF9crxoS0Akn7P7xUf7j2hz341mw2kNfJpm3xjoXCTdM9KMIJkV NYFId+sZJeU= =ZGau -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pn4ZYF1I2OiS/FpE2WQN--