From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932349AbWG3QcO (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:32:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932353AbWG3QcO (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:32:14 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:39318 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932349AbWG3QcO (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:32:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:32:03 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Jan Dittmer Cc: Theodore Tso , Kasper Sandberg , Pavel Machek , Jirka Lenost Benc , kernel list , ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: ipw3945 status Message-ID: <20060730163203.GA31495@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20060730104042.GE1920@elf.ucw.cz> <20060730112827.GA25540@srcf.ucam.org> <44CC993B.6070309@l4x.org> <20060730114722.GA26046@srcf.ucam.org> <1154264478.13635.22.camel@localhost> <20060730145305.GE23279@thunk.org> <44CCDD7E.3010207@l4x.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44CCDD7E.3010207@l4x.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:25:34PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote: > So if this is done, there should be a clearly abstracted interface > for such a daemon. I don't see what the daemon is doing more than > echo 1 4 7 8 > /sys/.../allowed_channels and a control circuit for > tx/rx power. The daemon sets the list of acceptable channels, the transmission powers for each of them and modifies this based on things like the temperature. Oh, yes, and it writes 802.11 scan frames that get passed straight to the firmware and broadcast. Insane crack. For reasons I don't as yet understand, various received frames also get passed back up to the daemon. I probably really don't want to know why. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org