On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:40:51PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > That means, for example, the prism2 WPA ioctls, because WE-19 has > equivalent functionality. Other examples include many of the madwifi > ioctls like auth_mode for which there are WEXT calls. Others include > the ones for creating virtual STAs that are now subsumed by mac80211. > > For stuff that's seriously not common among drivers, there's nothing > else that drivers can do but provide private ioctls. No, we're more than unhappy with private knobs in general. Each and every of them needs an good explanation on a) why it's needed b) why you can use an existing common interface c) why it doesn't make sense to add a new common interface see all the discussion on this on say netdev or linux-scsi. Realize it, private interfaces are really bad, it means you need special userspace for a single driver, that's exactly the thing we try to avoid at all cost. - 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
