On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Pierre Bourdon <delroth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello linux-wireless, > > I'm a developer of libdrc, a project that allows Linux computers to > control a Wii U GamePad. Because of how the device operates, our > library needs to be able to read the TSF value of the access point > device from userland. > > We currently have a hacky patch that works for our use cases, but it > would be a lot more convenient if that feature could be upstreamed. > What would be the best way to proceed? > > Our current patch: > https://bitbucket.org/memahaxx/drc-mac80211/commits/4a9823cf2a6733bc15a05cffaebd8850d07451a7 To clarify: I have 0 experience developing "clean" stuff for the Linux driver (only hacky patches). A few simple questions that I have in order to make this patch more useful: * Is there some kind of "threshold" for features like this to be accepted upstream? How likely is it that this feature will get merged in the end? * Is there any framework for exporting data from mac80211 drivers to a /sys or /proc file? There is code that exports data to debugfs, but that is usually not mounted by default or enabled by distributions. Our patch currently uses a /sys file, but I think nothing else in mac80211 does anything like that so far. * Should integer values be exported as human-readable ASCII base 10 numbers in proc/sys files or is exporting the raw bytes as our patch currently does acceptable? Thanks, -- Pierre "delroth" Bourdon <delroth@xxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer @ Zürich, Switzerland http://code.delroth.net/ -- 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
