On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 06:30 +0900, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:47:37 -0700 > Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky at linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > Hi Stephen > > > > > > > The driver is a mess, I have a long list of changes that need to be done, > > > the biggest is that the user space and API model are a mess. It really needs > > > to be completely rewritten. > > > > Could you do a write up of what is the API model? Additions will be > > needed to the minimal stack that there is now and I'd like to start > > thinking about them. > > > > Thanks! > > > > The existing code uses a single character device. Read/write are > control packets, and it has a long list of ioctl's to do things like > check link status etc. They also have a binary format configuration > file that is read in like firmware at the startup. Much of the configuration > can probably be eliminated and the rest can either be done as module > parameters or config fs. Actually most of the configuration you would want to standarize it under a common module. I bet it is not that different to what Intel has -- this will be things like setting channel parameters for scanning, etc. Is the HCI documented in text or just in code?
