Re: [PATCH 2/6] mac80211: remove global tsinfo debugfs variables

[Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 13:36 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> Johannes probably meant a binary blob prepared by user space. That still
> complies to the one value per file rule.

Right, but that is not easy to use (i.e with `echo` or `cat`) without
writting a user space program.

> > The DLS is easier because it only has one parameter (peer mac address)
> > now. I programed it the same way as tspec. So when we find to need more
> > parameters for DLS setup, we can add another debugfs file for the new
> > parameter instead of combining multiple parameters in one file.
> > 
> > I'd agree I didn't pay a lot of attentions to the debugfs interface
> > design since I thought it was used for occasional debug only. Please
> > tell me what which do you prefer: one value per file or multiple values
> > per file so that we can do one shot parameter passing? So I don't need
> > to switch them back and forth.
> 
> Depends on how long you want to keep this debugfs interface. If it's just a
> few months matter and it's never going to hit vanilla, it's probably not
> worth the effort to rewrite it.

I'm working with Johannes with the API define. When this is done,
hopfully we can remove the debugfs stuff.

Thanks,
-yi