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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mac80211-hwsim: Pass rate-ctrl flags and tx-power to user-space
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:23:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <552E909E.6010405@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428999345.3019.9.camel@sipsolutions.net>

On 04/14/2015 01:15 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 14:12 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> 
>> +/* Auxilary info to allow user-space to better understand the rate */
>> +struct hwsim_tx_rate2 {
>> +	u16 rc_flags; /* rate-ctrl flags (see mac80211_rate_control_flags) */
> 
> I really don't like this - it ties internal API to userspace API. You
> may argue that this is userspace that is for debug purposes only, but
> I'm sure you'll also scratch your head very confused when I change the
> rate control flags for any reason and your code breaks :)

Is this a documentation only issue (at this point, while code matches)?

Then later, we can add translation to keep user-space API the same
as needed?

And in that case, maybe I'll make it u32 to give room down the road?

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-15 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-03 21:12 [PATCH 1/4] mac80211-hwsim: notify user-space about channel change greearb
2015-04-03 21:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] mac80211-hwsim: remove dmesg spam about get-survey greearb
2015-04-14  8:14   ` Johannes Berg
2015-04-03 21:12 ` [PATCH 3/4] mac80211-hwsim: Pass rate-ctrl flags and tx-power to user-space greearb
2015-04-14  8:15   ` Johannes Berg
2015-04-15 16:23     ` Ben Greear [this message]
2015-04-17 11:23       ` Johannes Berg
2015-04-03 21:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] mac80211-hwsim: enable better rx-status when using netlink greearb
2015-04-14  8:17   ` Johannes Berg
2015-04-05 14:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] mac80211-hwsim: notify user-space about channel change Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14  8:14 ` Johannes Berg

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