Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 17:40 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> Heh, this has been a pretty long review period. To be honest I really >> would like to get this just out of my hands :) And we do have a need for >> this. When are you planning to implement that generic framework? > > Soon (TM). We need it, so really, I should do it soon. > >> What I understood is that this is already pretty close what you are >> planning. Instead of creating a debugfs file of our own and allocating a >> vmalloc buffer (which we do now), we would just use the buffer provided >> by cfg80211 (or whatever component that would be) and use the sysfs file >> the framework provides. So hopefully it would be pretty easy to convert >> this to use your framework. > > I'm thinking now that since vmalloc space is limited on some > architectures, we should just have a list of pages, but of course we > could copy it there from vmalloc area. > > Anyway, yes, it should be fairly simple to convert - but is it worth it > for you to have it now? Depends how you use it, I guess. We really would have use for this, that's why I'm hesitant to wait more. Even having this from an "unofficial" location would be a big help. If it's ok for you, I would like to apply this once all review comments are addressed. But naturally if you think it's better to wait, I will do that. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
