Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:38:02PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 07:54 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> Btw, if we submit cfg80211 for inclusion there should be at least one 
> >patch
> >> in the series actually converts a driver to use it.  Both to make this
> >> code not dead and give people and example on how to use the cfg80211
> >> infrastructure.
> >
> >I guess I could make softmac use it.
> 
> Another idea here is we can provide a configfs frontend to cfg80211
> therefore any device which implements cfg80211 will automagically have
> a userspace frontend (/configfs/wireless/foo) ready to test cfg80211.
> With this we wouldn't have to wait for the next userspace nl80211
> application to start testing cfg80211 directly (without wireless
> extensions compat). A configfs frontend can also allow more rapid
> development of userspace interfaces to configure wireless devices
> through cfg80211. Comments?

Luis,

You have mentioned this before, and FWIW I think it is a decent idea.
Let's see some code! :-)

Still, I don't think it changes the issue that we need a driver (or
stack) plugged-in to the bottom end.  I have this on my personal list
of "soon TODO", although I haven't picked a driver yet.

If anyone is working on a cfg80211 driver conversion, please speak-up
so we can avoid duplicating work.

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
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