On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > + linux-wireless > > Not really a backports question so adding linux-wireless > > On 08/11/2014 09:21 PM, C. McPherson wrote: >> >> I have some private WiFi ioctl's that are associated with a couple of >> drivers and I would like to convert those private ioctl's into netlink. >> Does anyone know if there is any documentation on this or a URL that I >> could reference before I attempt? > > > I guess the "private WiFi ioctl's" you are referring to are the ones used in Android wpa_supplicant driver_cmd lib? There is no real cookbook on how to add nl80211 commands (maybe I am wrong here), but there are sufficient patches to be found in the linux-wireless archive. A recent one about key management offload adds a couple of commands and attributes which may give an idea what is needed: > > http://mid.gmane.org/1406076875-8549-1-git-send-email-clanctot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Obviously, you need to modify the "couple of drivers" to deal with the nl80211 netlink commands. > We had same requirement in our driver, we have patched the iw to send custom commands specific to our hardware and used NL80211_CMD_TESTMODE to process and send it to driver. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
