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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
	Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mwifiex: add hostcmd wext ioctl support
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:14:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y455a7u3.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1468417703-32716-2-git-send-email-akarwar@marvell.com> (Amitkumar Karwar's message of "Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:18:23 +0530")

Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> writes:

> From: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
>
> This patch adds ndo_ioctl support to mwifiex netdev handlers.
> This will be used to download hostcmds to firmware from userspace.
> This is needed for manufacturing mode support in mwifiex. ndo_ioctl
> is allowed only when mfg mode is enabled via module load parameters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
> ---
> v3: Add "select WIRELESS_EXT" in Kconfig to resolve kbuild test robot errors.
>     WEXT_PRIV seems to have a dependency with WIRELESS_EXT.
> v2: 1) Sequence of these two patches are changed to resolve compilation
>     error seen if only 1/2 is applied.
>     2) Add "select WEXT_PRIV" in Kconfig to resolve warnings reported by
>     kbuild test robot.

Why can't you use nl80211 testmode interface?

-- 
Kalle Valo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-13 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-13 13:48 [PATCH v3 1/2] mwifiex: add manufacturing mode support Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-13 13:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mwifiex: add hostcmd wext ioctl support Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-13 15:14   ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2016-07-13 15:25     ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-13 15:48       ` Kalle Valo
2016-07-13 15:59         ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-16 14:42   ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-13 15:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mwifiex: add manufacturing mode support Kalle Valo
2016-07-13 15:57   ` Amitkumar Karwar
2016-07-13 16:31     ` Kalle Valo
2016-07-13 16:39       ` Amitkumar Karwar

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