From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:36382 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751022AbZLRLmz (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:42:55 -0500 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so1382538ewy.21 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:42:53 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890912080830v40ff214co178fb17c38439e70@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091204192315.GA5786@tuxdriver.com> <20091207215903.GC18939@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890912080801s52607743s738ed6cdad7d154e@mail.gmail.com> <20091208160659.GG15172@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890912080830v40ff214co178fb17c38439e70@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:42:52 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH] ath5k: add support for Dell Vostro A860 LED From: Shahar Or To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "John W. Linville" , Bob Copeland , ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> IIRC this is all mapped in the INF file, I thought I had released an >>> INF file under the ISC license but it seems that's not the case, I can >>> try to do that if it helps. Anyway, if we can move this sort of map to >>> userspace it'd be neat as you'd just need a userspace file update. >>> Only thing is how to do this in a generic way for all wireless drivers >>> and if this is indeed useful for other drivers. >> >> Export something through sysfs and use a udev rule? > > True. Is sysfs the preferred fs nowadays, what about configfs? Or > maybe even udev rule --> nl80211 ? If we have all the IDs from the INF file, then why do we need this in userspace? Is the list growing?