On 2/8/07, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:38:02PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On 2/8/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 07:54 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> Btw, if we submit cfg80211 for inclusion there should be at least one > >patch > >> in the series actually converts a driver to use it. Both to make this > >> code not dead and give people and example on how to use the cfg80211 > >> infrastructure. > > > >I guess I could make softmac use it. > > Another idea here is we can provide a configfs frontend to cfg80211 > therefore any device which implements cfg80211 will automagically have > a userspace frontend (/configfs/wireless/foo) ready to test cfg80211. > With this we wouldn't have to wait for the next userspace nl80211 > application to start testing cfg80211 directly (without wireless > extensions compat). A configfs frontend can also allow more rapid > development of userspace interfaces to configure wireless devices > through cfg80211. Comments? Luis, You have mentioned this before, and FWIW I think it is a decent idea. Let's see some code! :-)
I know, I know, talk is cheap, trust me, I abide by this motto every day. I actually wanted to just code this up and send this as part of my comment but do have other responsibilities I have to attend to first. I figured I'd throw it out though in case someone who does have time is willing to pick it up as I think it would be great for us.
Still, I don't think it changes the issue that we need a driver (or stack) plugged-in to the bottom end. I have this on my personal list of "soon TODO", although I haven't picked a driver yet. If anyone is working on a cfg80211 driver conversion, please speak-up so we can avoid duplicating work.
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