From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:24811 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888AbZLRQXL (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:23:11 -0500 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.105]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:23:11 -0800 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:23:09 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Shahar Or CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org" , "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH] ath5k: add support for Dell Vostro A860 LED Message-ID: <20091218162309.GD6231@tux> References: <20091204192315.GA5786@tuxdriver.com> <20091207215903.GC18939@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890912080801s52607743s738ed6cdad7d154e@mail.gmail.com> <20091208160659.GG15172@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890912080830v40ff214co178fb17c38439e70@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890912180737s382c24c5q8720f1e3138fefb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <43e72e890912180737s382c24c5q8720f1e3138fefb@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:37:24AM -0800, Luis Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Shahar Or wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > > wrote: > >>>> IIRC this is all mapped in the INF file, I thought I had released an > >>>> INF file under the ISC license but it seems that's not the case, I can > >>>> try to do that if it helps. Anyway, if we can move this sort of map to > >>>> userspace it'd be neat as you'd just need a userspace file update. > >>>> Only thing is how to do this in a generic way for all wireless drivers > >>>> and if this is indeed useful for other drivers. > >>> > >>> Export something through sysfs and use a udev rule? > >> > >> True. Is sysfs the preferred fs nowadays, what about configfs? Or > >> maybe even udev rule --> nl80211 ? > > > > If we have all the IDs from the INF file, then why do we need this in > > userspace? Is the list growing? > > No, but for other newer hardware/drivers it can likely grow, so my > comment was more of a generic driver approach to this. Actually AR2425 still sells it seems, so yeah I guess it can grow even for ath5k. Luis