From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nl80211 vendor commands on upstream drivers
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 09:40:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h90i651k.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1495028069.2442.17.camel@sipsolutions.net> (Johannes Berg's message of "Wed, 17 May 2017 15:34:29 +0200")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 16:51 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>
>> But this does not mean that the gates are open for all possible hacks
>> via vendor commands, we still want to have generic nl80211 interface
>> for all normal functionality. Just to give some examples of something
>> which is NOT acceptable:
>
> [snip scanning]
>
>> * power save settings
>> * btcoex settings
>
> I'm starting to think that these might really be a vendor API for
> anything but the most basic features - there's so much variation here
> now.
>
> OTOH, much of these shouldn't really be something the user needs to
> twiddle with anyway.
Yeah, for example power save is something which should just work. But
btcoex settings so seem to be quite hairy sometimes, so maybe a vendor
interface is justifiable. Dunno.
--
Kalle Valo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-18 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-12 13:51 nl80211 vendor commands on upstream drivers Kalle Valo
2017-05-17 13:34 ` Johannes Berg
2017-05-18 6:40 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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