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Re: [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: debugfs support for TSM and DLS

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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:17:55 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 22:39 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > A global variable? Common for all devices you have in your computer?
> > That's broken.
> 
> OK, it can be fixed. But it is that broken if you treat it as a debug
> helper and don't use it on mulitple interfaces simultaneously.

It's broken even when it's just a debug code. Please fix it.

> > Triggering an event just by writing anything to the debugfs file
> > doesn't seem like a clean and intelligible way to configure things.

(*)

> > Also, are you aware this is just a _debug_ stuff? Given the fact that
> > you're calling (for example) ieee80211_send_addts from debugfs handler
> > only, it looks like you're misusing it as an user space API.
> 
> If you follow the thread, I will write a user space API with cfg80211.
> This one for debugging only.

Ok, I somehow missed that. I suppose that's fine for wireless-dev then.
Except that I'm still not happy with (*). But that's probably just a
matter of taste and therefore doesn't constitute a real problem in a
debug code.

Thanks,

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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