On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:09 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:01 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: >> > This patch is based on a patch from Shailendra Govardhan. It introduces >> > several new iwprivs: {get,set}_bootflag {get,set}_boottime >> > {get,set}_def_chan >> > {get,set}_def_protid {get,set}_def_metid {get,set}_def_meshcap >> > {get,set}_def_meshid. These commands are only supported on Marvell >> > hardware >> > that implements persistent defaults, such as the OLPC Active Antenna. >> > Accordingly, this patch may not be suitable for upstream merging. > >> But this is the _one_ thing which might actually be OK to do with a >> private ioctl, since it's very hardware-specific. Unlike like all the >> mesh-mangling stuff where we really ought to be compatible with o11s. >> >> So maybe, just maybe, we _can_ do this with iwpriv and push that >> upstream. > > Maybe we do, after all, need an iwpriv equivalent in cfg80211/nl80211 so > that we can kill wext at some point. > > Or maybe this should be in sysfs or so? > > johannes >
Or maybe in configfs? That's a better place for configuration options. (BTW rt2x00 uses debugfs as an iwpriv replacement, so that's another possibility.) -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel