From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] cfg80211: firmware and hardware version
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:12:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254427954.3538.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890910011256v18b30e7ck420ce80b5d35fdcb@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 13:56 -0600, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't predict a huge problem if there are
> > valid extensions required for use by wireless drivers in the future.
> > But for now, I'd like to see us make use of some of the debugging
> > facilities available in the ethtool API -- hopefully the iwlwifi guys
> > are listening... ;-)
>
> Does the same apply to wimax then? Ethtool for 802.11 and wimax? Eh.
Not really -- WiMAX is not eth-frame based, but IP based.
The WiMAX stack doesn't require any type of framing/network device
typing requirement. That is left up to the device driver writer
(although yes, emulating eth is easier).
--
-- Inaky
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 18:02 [PATCH 0/2] cfg80211: firmware and hardware version Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 18:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add firmware and hardware version to wiphy Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 18:32 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-24 19:14 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 20:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-24 18:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] at76c50x-usb: set firmware and hardware version in wiphy Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 18:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-24 19:10 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 20:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-25 19:11 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-25 19:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-26 12:07 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-26 13:59 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 21:13 ` Joerg Albert
2009-09-25 19:06 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 18:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] iw: update nl80211.h from wireless-testing Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 18:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] iw: print firmware and hardware version Kalle Valo
2009-09-24 20:20 ` [PATCH 0/2] cfg80211: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-25 4:42 ` John W. Linville
2009-09-25 16:47 ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-25 16:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-01 1:13 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-01 1:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] wireless: implement basic ethtool support for cfg80211 devices John W. Linville
2009-10-01 1:19 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-01 1:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] cfg80211: add firmware and hardware version to wiphy John W. Linville
2009-10-01 1:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] at76c50x-usb: set firmware and hardware version in wiphy John W. Linville
2009-10-01 1:19 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-01 1:32 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-01 14:27 ` Kalle Valo
2009-10-01 1:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] wireless: implement basic ethtool support for cfg80211 devices Ben Hutchings
2009-10-01 8:51 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-01 8:51 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-01 14:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] cfg80211: firmware and hardware version Kalle Valo
2009-10-01 15:18 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-01 15:33 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-10-01 16:56 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-01 16:56 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-01 16:20 ` Kalle Valo
2009-10-01 17:07 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-01 19:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-01 19:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-01 20:12 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez [this message]
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