On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:24:28PM +0100, Michalis Pappas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on bringing the gdm72xx WiMAX driver out of > staging. The driver currently uses two control channels: > > 1. The SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctl to send and receive state messages > > 2. A customly defined netlink protocol for passing messages verbatim to > the device controller > > AFAIK both of the above are deprecated, so I considered switching to > the interface defined in wimax.h, which defines a communication protocol > over generic netlink that replaces (2) nicely. However it is not > compatible with (1), as: > > * Except from the device status, the gdm72xx driver uses two more types > of messages (connection and OMA status), which is not supported > by wimax.h. > > * The gdm driver needs to be able to receive status messages from > userspace, which is not supported by wimax.h either. What type of status messages are needed to be sent to the driver? > I therefore consider using the wimax stack as defined in wimax.h for the > netlink part, but replacing the ioctl with a file under /sys/class/net/wm0/ Is anyone still working on wimax to even object to add new functions like this? :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
