From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:31:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070308083118.GA3532@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173321651.12017.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:40:51PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> That means, for example, the prism2 WPA ioctls, because WE-19 has
> equivalent functionality. Other examples include many of the madwifi
> ioctls like auth_mode for which there are WEXT calls. Others include
> the ones for creating virtual STAs that are now subsumed by mac80211.
>
> For stuff that's seriously not common among drivers, there's nothing
> else that drivers can do but provide private ioctls.
No, we're more than unhappy with private knobs in general. Each and
every of them needs an good explanation on
a) why it's needed
b) why you can use an existing common interface
c) why it doesn't make sense to add a new common interface
see all the discussion on this on say netdev or linux-scsi.
Realize it, private interfaces are really bad, it means you need
special userspace for a single driver, that's exactly the thing
we try to avoid at all cost.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-08 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070227205649.GH5826@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-28 1:01 ` Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 John W. Linville
2007-03-03 1:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-03 5:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-04 15:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-03-05 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-07 18:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-03-07 22:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 2:40 ` Dan Williams
2007-03-08 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-03-08 14:06 ` Michael Buesch
2007-05-07 10:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-07 12:03 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-07 14:11 ` Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6) John W. Linville
2007-05-07 15:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-07 15:38 ` John W. Linville
2007-05-07 15:47 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-07 15:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-07 16:44 ` John W. Linville
2007-05-08 6:12 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-08 8:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-08 20:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-08 23:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-08 9:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-08 20:27 ` Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 David Miller
2007-05-08 20:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-08 21:29 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-08 22:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-08 23:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-05-09 1:27 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-09 21:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-09 21:41 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-09 21:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-10 18:35 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-09 21:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-10 16:56 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-10 20:48 ` Dan Williams
2007-03-16 21:38 Please pull 'libertas' " John W. Linville
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-11 19:26 John W. Linville
2007-05-11 20:59 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] <20070529183347.GD3496@tuxdriver.com>
2007-05-30 14:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-30 15:28 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-31 21:13 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-31 21:16 ` John W. Linville
2007-06-01 21:48 ` Dan Williams
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