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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Pierre Bourdon <delroth@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Exporting the TSF to userland
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:36:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3e3nk7f.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+V6dmjoLx90vEwGZa8vRNHp0yWqKQnae+GcvEZHsCxR-oHnhg@mail.gmail.com> (Pierre Bourdon's message of "Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:37:34 +0100")

Pierre Bourdon <delroth@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 05:24 +0100, Pierre Bourdon wrote:
>>> Hello linux-wireless,
>>>
>>> I'm a developer of libdrc, a project that allows Linux computers to
>>> control a Wii U GamePad. Because of how the device operates, our
>>> library needs to be able to read the TSF value of the access point
>>> device from userland.
>>>
>>> We currently have a hacky patch that works for our use cases, but it
>>> would be a lot more convenient if that feature could be upstreamed.
>>> What would be the best way to proceed?
>>
>> That patch ... let's say I think "hacky" is almost lauding it. :)
>>
>> sysfs is a really bad place for this too, no other wireless APIs use
>> sysfs.
>
> What do you recommend as the best place to export this kind of information?

Either nl80211 or debugfs. Maybe debugfs is better because this is more
or less a hack?

-- 
Kalle Valo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-31  4:24 Exporting the TSF to userland Pierre Bourdon
2013-12-31  8:23 ` Kalle Valo
2013-12-31  8:28   ` Pierre Bourdon
2014-01-03  1:07 ` Pierre Bourdon
2014-01-03 11:48   ` David Herrmann
2014-01-06 11:23 ` Johannes Berg
2014-01-06 11:37   ` Pierre Bourdon
2014-01-14  6:36     ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2014-01-14  8:15       ` David Herrmann
2014-01-14  8:26         ` Kalle Valo
2014-01-14  8:34           ` David Herrmann

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