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On Wednesday 12 December 2007 02:13:08 Zhu Yi wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:50 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:17:28 Zhu Yi wrote:
> > > I want to add ethtool .get_eeprom and .get_eeprom_len support for
> > > iwlwifi. But it seems mac80211 hides the netdev structure from the
> > > driver. What's the suggested way for doing so (i.e dump EEPROM) for
> > > mac80211 devices?
> > 
> > In ssb we simply create a sysfs file for this.
> 
> Yeah, we can do this also. But the users want a standard way, especially
> when there is already such kernel interface and user space tools ready
> there. Any chance mac80211 supports ethtool or something similar?

You could write a patch.
Add a callback to mac80211 that mac80211 uses to register the eeprom
ethtool interface.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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