From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: "Bing Zhao" <bzhao@marvell.com>,
"linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Paul Stewart" <pstew@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:18:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51704721.2020001@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CD07F4FD-7136-44EA-A39C-5AB660726BDE@holtmann.org>
On 04/18/2013 09:10 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Bing,
>
>>>> Add a "wireless/nl80211_iftype" entry in the net device sysfs
>>>> file structure to indicate the mode of the wireless device so
>>>> it can be discovered easily from userspace.
>>>
>>> I do question a little bit the usefulness for this one.
>>> It would only work on netdev and on wdev devices.
>>
>> It's true. That's why the new sysfs entry is added in the 'wireless' placeholder.
>>
>> /sys/class/net/ethX/wireless/
>>
>> For non-wireless dev, this won't apply.
>
> I have to correct myself. I meant it does NOT work for wdev. Please just go with nl80211 for this kind of information. It is the right way to handle it. Not some sysfs file.
>
I wanted to correct you on P2P but that would be diverging from the real
message. Totally agreeing. Why add another user-space API when the
nl80211 API can provide the information.
Gr. AvS
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-18 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-17 22:06 [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type Bing Zhao
2013-04-17 22:09 ` Johannes Berg
2013-04-18 6:14 ` Nicolas Cavallari
2013-04-18 6:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 7:03 ` Paul Stewart
2013-04-18 15:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] ` <CAMcMvsjh4y=84hM+dCcFvb1xxSq5c3HqTBg6VyaCZkh5s=E5yA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-22 13:29 ` Johannes Berg
2013-04-22 13:55 ` Paul Stewart
2013-04-17 22:54 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 19:03 ` Bing Zhao
2013-04-18 19:10 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 19:18 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
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