On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 19:55 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:38:02PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > >> 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. > > Huh? We already have a wext fronted to nicely test cfg80211, what we > need are backends. In addition to that I think we should agree on > one primary userspace configuration method for the future instead of > adding lots of them just because it's so easy. If the public opinion > has changed 180 degrees and configs is preferred over nl80211 that's > fine by me as long as the implementation is sane.. I'd prefer to keep the netlink based API for use from userspace tools like NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant... configfs is nice for scripts and screenscrapers but not really appropriate for desktop stuff. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
