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
next prev 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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