Proc usage (was: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 3/3] consistently use ath5k in printks)

[Eric W Anderson <Eric.Anderson@Colorado.EDU>]

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I realize that primary role of the driver is for actual use, rather than for
research, but...  It's very useful in experiments to have /proc entries for all
the settings that you don't normally think of as tunable.  (e.g. turning off
antenna diversity, or ACKs, or changing the CCA thresholds). I'd really hate for
knobs to go away because someone things they're not "really" needed, or because
they're not worth merging into the new configuration framework.

-Eric

Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2007/10/17, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>:
>> On 10/17/07, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:14 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:20 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> the proc interface changed too from /proc/sys/dev/ath/ to /proc/sys/dev/ath5k/
>>>> Ok, and why exactly is there a proc interface at all?
>>> Yeah, it needs to die, we're not adding new proc interfaces to the
>>> kernel.  Stuff should be evaluated to see whether it's _really_ needed,
>>> and if for some reason it is, merged into mac80211 or cfg80211, and then
>>> if that doesn't work,
>> Agreed 200%. Die proc usage!
>>
>>> then maybe something in sysfs.
>> Nah, configfs for generic configuration of kernel objects. I already
>> have such module but it just had regdomain support. I plan on adding
>> add/remove iface.
>>
>>   Luis
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> 
> I've already removed the whole proc stuff along with debug stuff in
> base.c in madwifi-svn, i'll port patch here asap.
> 

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Eric W. Anderson                                   University of Colorado
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