Hi, last fall at Wireless Summit at Santa Fe we talked about having nl80211 vendor commands in upstream drivers[1]. The discussion starter was this wil6210 patch: wil6210: low level RF sector API https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9403071/ The conclusion from the discussion was that in some (rare) cases having vendor commands in upstream is acceptable, for example like here when interfacing low level hw features which most likely is not not compatible with other designs. But this does not mean that the gates are open for all possible hacks via vendor commands, we still want to have generic nl80211 interface for all normal functionality. Just to give some examples of something which is NOT acceptable: * yet another scanning interface (exception maybe being spectral scan?) * power save settings * btcoex settings Comments? Am I forgetting something from the discussion? [1] https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQXbVQ-3zQt3Bcr3OWfwzbw_C49tTvf0ed8Hmf7b20E6tXc3a40tWZmPku49iGDE-OhgxNmO_lkkHEn/pub -- Kalle Valo
