From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [RFC] Wireless extensions rethink Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:52:37 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <40C4D595.4050801@candelatech.com> References: <40C4C741.5040708@home.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Feldman, Scott" , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Gertjan van Wingerde In-Reply-To: <40C4C741.5040708@home.nl> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Gertjan van Wingerde wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I was thinking along the same lines, however I was taking the ethtool > interface as the starting point (using a single ioctl for all wireless > operations). The private handlers would just have to be converted to > plain ioctls handled by the driver itself. > > The attached patch can be used as a starting point for this. > It is not complete (not by far), but it shows the basic structure. > I've called the structure wlantool_ops, again using the example set by > ethtool. > > Comments? For what it's worth, I like the idea of using a single IOCTL similar to ethtool... Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com