From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] Add Regulatory Domain support to d80211 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:04:41 -0400 Message-ID: <43e72e890610260804q28505f71v6053f8dbbd457ac7@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061024140212.GB17543@devicescape.com> <43e72e890610241503r692975dfx65b2eab987ffbb3d@mail.gmail.com> <200610241853.03135.flamingice@sourmilk.net> <43e72e890610251043y22fb9ce6ne5e036dd58f36505@mail.gmail.com> <1161813628.8884.14.camel@johannes.berg> <1161873333.2927.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Berg" , "Michael Wu" , "Simon Barber" , "David Kimdon" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Jiri Benc" , "John W. Linville" , "Jean Tourrilhes" , "Hong Liu" , "Jouni Malinen" Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.229]:59529 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752151AbWJZPEn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:04:43 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i7so88949wra for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:04:43 -0700 (PDT) To: "Dan Williams" In-Reply-To: <1161873333.2927.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 10/26/06, Dan Williams wrote: > While wpa_supplicant is certainly the main client for stuff directly > related to setting up a connection, there are quite a few other users of > general WE calls to pull information out of the card, or to receive scan > events. How about we just ditch iwconfig completely and move on to wpa_supplicant/wpa_cli as our next userspace application with nl80211/cg80211 as our new API for usersapce-->kernel communication? As you point out, wpa_supplicant already does a lot for us -- and several distributions already rely on it. Some work is required but I think its worth it. If we do a complete move from WE to nl80211 it would be transparent to the users too. Luis