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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211 ethtool support
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:31:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1197505888.13188.9.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240712121523h59d919f8k42fe54b992618432@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 01:23 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:

> > NACK. Which virtual interface should get this? wmaster sounds like the
> > "obvious" candidate but we want to get rid of it ASAP. And the others
> > ones are pretty wrong because you can, technically, have a wiphy without
> > any virtual interfaces on it.
> >
> Just a thought. What if all virtual interfaces will quasi implements
> it. It doesn't matter if all the interfaces answers the same.

I think The True Linux Way (c) would be to have EEPROM support for
devices (those that live in /sys/device) without tying it to network
interfaces or cfg80211.

See __ATTR in include/linux/device.h, although I'm not sure if
attributes are suitable for EEPROM as is.

Maybe EEPROM should even be a separate class of devices connected to
other devices.

Of course, the topic would be better suited for LKML.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-13  0:31 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
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 [this message]

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