Hi Kalle, > -----Original Message----- > From: Kalle Valo [mailto:kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 8:44 PM > To: Amitkumar Karwar > Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Cathy Luo; Nishant Sarmukadam; > Xinming Hu > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mwifiex: add hostcmd wext ioctl support > > Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > From: Xinming Hu <huxm@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > This patch adds ndo_ioctl support to mwifiex netdev handlers. > > This will be used to download hostcmds to firmware from userspace. > > This is needed for manufacturing mode support in mwifiex. ndo_ioctl is > > allowed only when mfg mode is enabled via module load parameters. > > > > Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > v3: Add "select WIRELESS_EXT" in Kconfig to resolve kbuild test robot > errors. > > WEXT_PRIV seems to have a dependency with WIRELESS_EXT. > > v2: 1) Sequence of these two patches are changed to resolve > compilation > > error seen if only 1/2 is applied. > > 2) Add "select WEXT_PRIV" in Kconfig to resolve warnings reported > by > > kbuild test robot. > > Why can't you use nl80211 testmode interface? These two patches facilitates user to configure manufacturing mode. We have a separate firmware for this mode. It's needed to run special WiFi conductive and radiated tests at factory. The userspace tools used for this purpose expects WEXT interface. Regards, Amitkumar -- 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
