From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
To: Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
Brian Norris <briannorris@google.com>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@google.com>,
rajatja@google.com, Zhiyuan Yang <yangzy@marvell.com>,
Tim Song <songtao@marvell.com>, Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>,
Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>, Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: add device specific ioctl handler
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:39:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59C22949.9030304@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505889853-20493-1-git-send-email-huxinming820@gmail.com>
On 9/20/2017 8:44 AM, Xinming Hu wrote:
> From: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
>
> Add net_dev ndo_do_ioctl handler, which could be used for
> downloading host command by utility in manufactory test
Not sure if we want ioctls in upstream wireless drivers. You could look
at nl80211 vendor commands, but that is also under scrutiny if common
wifi functionality is provided by it. I am pretty sure Kalle has his
ideas about this :-)
Regards,
Arend
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-20 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-20 6:44 [PATCH] mwifiex: add device specific ioctl handler Xinming Hu
2017-09-20 8:06 ` Souptick Joarder
2017-09-20 9:11 ` [EXT] " Xinming Hu
2017-09-20 8:39 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2017-09-20 11:38 ` Kalle Valo
2017-09-23 2:29 ` kbuild test robot
2017-09-23 3:01 ` kbuild test robot
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2017-09-20 10:04 Xinming Hu
2017-09-20 11:43 ` Kalle Valo
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