From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis R. Rodriguez Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:38:00 -0700 Subject: [ath9k-devel] managing virtual wiphys In-Reply-To: <4AB23F39.3020105@ua.pt> References: <4AB23F39.3020105@ua.pt> Message-ID: <20090922173800.GA15939@mosca> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:52:57AM -0700, Rodolphe Marques wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to develop an application so that I can manage virtual > interfaces from user space, without using debugfs. > Does anyone has any suggestion on how should I do this? Should I use > nl80211 and create the necessary callbacks in the drivers? debugfs cannot be relied upon for userspace unless you are willing to deal with future file name changes or APIs. If its a debugging utility then its a great match. In the future we may see some of this move toward cfg80211 although exactly what is unclear at this point. Luis