From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211 ethtool support
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:48:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712121148.48716.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197421988.3170.405.camel@debian.sh.intel.com>
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 02:13:08 Zhu Yi wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:50 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:17:28 Zhu Yi wrote:
> > > I want to add ethtool .get_eeprom and .get_eeprom_len support for
> > > iwlwifi. But it seems mac80211 hides the netdev structure from the
> > > driver. What's the suggested way for doing so (i.e dump EEPROM) for
> > > mac80211 devices?
> >
> > In ssb we simply create a sysfs file for this.
>
> Yeah, we can do this also. But the users want a standard way, especially
> when there is already such kernel interface and user space tools ready
> there. Any chance mac80211 supports ethtool or something similar?
You could write a patch.
Add a callback to mac80211 that mac80211 uses to register the eeprom
ethtool interface.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-11 8:17 mac80211 ethtool support Zhu Yi
2007-12-11 12:50 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-12 1:13 ` Zhu Yi
2007-12-12 10:48 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-12-12 17:45 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-12 23:23 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-12-13 0:27 ` John W. Linville
2007-12-13 11:38 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-13 13:43 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-12-13 17:34 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-13 0:31 ` Pavel Roskin
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