From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56734 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423297AbXBHTzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:55:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:55:26 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Johannes Berg , Christoph Hellwig , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client Message-ID: <20070208195526.GA5319@infradead.org> References: <20070131013717.GA28076@tuxdriver.com> <20070207004626.GA23096@tuxdriver.com> <20070207004747.GB23096@tuxdriver.com> <20070207004832.GC23096@tuxdriver.com> <20070207004929.GD23096@tuxdriver.com> <20070207075420.GB14703@infradead.org> <1170940386.4385.49.camel@johannes.berg> <43e72e890702081038k1d4f226eocf28c5faf6b79dc5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <43e72e890702081038k1d4f226eocf28c5faf6b79dc5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:38:02PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> 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. Huh? We already have a wext fronted to nicely test cfg80211, what we need are backends. In addition to that I think we should agree on one primary userspace configuration method for the future instead of adding lots of them just because it's so easy. If the public opinion has changed 180 degrees and configs is preferred over nl80211 that's fine by me as long as the implementation is sane..