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Re: Exporting the TSF to userland

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 05:24 +0100, Pierre Bourdon 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?
>
> That patch ... let's say I think "hacky" is almost lauding it. :)
>
> sysfs is a really bad place for this too, no other wireless APIs use
> sysfs.

What do you recommend as the best place to export this kind of information?

-- 
Pierre "delroth" Bourdon <delroth@xxxxxxxxx>
Software Engineer @ Zürich, Switzerland
http://code.delroth.net/
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