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Re: nl80211 vendor commands on upstream drivers

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 16:51 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> 
>> 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:
>
> [snip scanning]
>
>> * power save settings
>> * btcoex settings
>
> I'm starting to think that these might really be a vendor API for
> anything but the most basic features - there's so much variation here
> now.
>
> OTOH, much of these shouldn't really be something the user needs to
> twiddle with anyway.

Yeah, for example power save is something which should just work. But
btcoex settings so seem to be quite hairy sometimes, so maybe a vendor
interface is justifiable. Dunno.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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