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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of the Union: Wireless
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:26:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136550384.4037.48.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060106114620.GA23707@isilmar.linta.de>

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> From someone who has no idea at all (yet) about 802.11: why character
> device, and not sysfs or configfs files? Like

As Michael already said -- there's no real reason for that. We were just
brainstorming. The /dev idea seemed like a good plan at first, but then
it isn't fixed. What you suggested below does look useful too.

Coming back to the point Michael already raised: the overarching idea is
to get rid of the net_dev for the 'master' device, even if the
underlying hardware supports only a single virtual device (which might
then be created by the driver automatically)

I'll move the wiki pages a bit to accomodate different models, please
check in a few minutes.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-06  4:22 State of the Union: Wireless Jeff Garzik
2006-01-06 11:31 ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-06 11:46   ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-01-06 12:26     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-01-06 12:48     ` Stefan Rompf
2006-01-06 12:53       ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-07 14:49   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-10 13:18     ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-10  6:39 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-10  8:36   ` Chase Venters
2006-01-10 10:41   ` Andreas Mohr
2006-01-11  2:05 ` Wireless: One small step towards a more perfect union...? John W. Linville
2006-01-11  5:17   ` David S. Miller
2006-01-11  8:37   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-11 13:19   ` Bas Vermeulen
2006-01-11 22:28   ` Daniel Drake
2006-01-11 22:37     ` Jeff Garzik

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