On Wednesday 03 December 2008, juuso.oikarinen@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > The Nokia driver is not a rewrite of any Intel driver, it is has been > written from scratch by Nokia, and as far as I know well before the > Intel WiMAX Linux development had really speeded up. > > Although I share your view on WE, and I think a netlink message based > interface would be elegant, I'm not sure how the community will view a > driver interface without IOCTL based control. > > I agree with you. The best solution would be a fusion. A netlink message > based interface with the abstract WiMAX operations (with interface > abstraction at the level used in the Nokia driver) would be the way to > start defining a uniform WiMAX driver interface for Linux. Well, no ioctl is the way, it has to be netlink. What set of calls/signals do you propose that should be in the kernel interface? I really don't want to set this on stone until there is at least a second vendor coming in, but that doesn't mean we can start thinking about it. BTW, where can we find your user space code? Thanks, -- Inaky
