From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Igor Trindade Oliveira <igor_trindade@yahoo.com.br>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: configfs support
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:18:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1229973504.4406.22.camel@johannes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081222085146.GC5732@jm.kir.nu>
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On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:51 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Hmm.. The addition of support to add interfaces dynamically with mkdir
> sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure whether I really like the part of
> removing debugfs support.. mac80211_hwsim is a developer tool and I want
> to be able to have an undocumented and free for changes interface
> (debugfs) that does not have so strict requirement on kernel-userspace
> interface. This patch seems to also be moving the PS testing parameter
> to use configfs. If this means that it will be more difficult to change
> that mechanism or add new parameters in the future, I'm not sure I would
> support that part of the change.
As has been argued elsewhere, a few interfaces in debugfs have also
become "stable" to a point that they can't be changed much any more... I
think since this is a development tool even configfs could be declared
an in-development API?
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-22 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-20 17:48 [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: configfs support Igor Trindade Oliveira
2008-12-20 22:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-12-22 8:51 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-12-22 19:18 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-01-15 18:48 ` Johannes Berg
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2008-12-05 21:37 Igor Trindade Oliveira
2008-12-08 13:05 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-12-08 13:56 ` Igor Trindade Oliveira
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