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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Pierre Bourdon <delroth@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Exporting the TSF to userland
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 12:23:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389007385.5891.9.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+V6dmh7Udn96GG0XGaabx-t6ZViu1RGk-xTawa_KbnCdro9Ew@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20131231_052532_890939_E8ECD40B)

On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 05:24 +0100, Pierre Bourdon wrote:
> Hello linux-wireless,
> 
> I'm a developer of libdrc, a project that allows Linux computers to
> control a Wii U GamePad. Because of how the device operates, our
> library needs to be able to read the TSF value of the access point
> device from userland.
> 
> We currently have a hacky patch that works for our use cases, but it
> would be a lot more convenient if that feature could be upstreamed.
> What would be the best way to proceed?

That patch ... let's say I think "hacky" is almost lauding it. :)

sysfs is a really bad place for this too, no other wireless APIs use
sysfs.

johannes


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-06 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-31  4:24 Exporting the TSF to userland Pierre Bourdon
2013-12-31  8:23 ` Kalle Valo
2013-12-31  8:28   ` Pierre Bourdon
2014-01-03  1:07 ` Pierre Bourdon
2014-01-03 11:48   ` David Herrmann
2014-01-06 11:23 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-01-06 11:37   ` Pierre Bourdon
2014-01-14  6:36     ` Kalle Valo
2014-01-14  8:15       ` David Herrmann
2014-01-14  8:26         ` Kalle Valo
2014-01-14  8:34           ` David Herrmann

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