Hi Pavan, On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:22:01PM -0500, Pavan Savoy wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 06:24:50PM +0300, Waldemar.Rymarkiewicz@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Hi Samuel, > >> > >> >That's the Bluetooth approach, and it works just fine as well. > >> >However, the netlink option for sending commands and receiving > >> >answers to/from a subsystem sounds more appropriate, at least to me. > >> > >> I haven't used netlink in practice, so just wondering why netlink. I assume, then, it's more suitable :) > >> > > Have a look at the wireless nl80211.c implementation. It's a good example for > > that sort of usage. > > So, why was the network interface 'ala eth0 or the netlink interface dropped? The netlink interface was not dropped. See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=130705125228073&w=2 > I saw these patches recently "NFC: add nfc subsystem core" - which > seem to add just the device /dev/nfc - am I correct ? No, the /dev/nfc interface is gone with this subsystem. Instead you will talk to an AF_NFC socket, or to the NFC generic netlink socket for some NFC high level commands and events. See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=130705125728090&w=2 for more details. Cheers, Samuel. -- Intel Open Source Technology Centre http://oss.intel.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
