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Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: add device specific ioctl handler

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Xinming Hu <huxm@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> You could look at
>> nl80211 vendor commands, but that is also under scrutiny if common wifi
>> functionality is provided by it. I am pretty sure Kalle has his ideas about this :-)
>> 
>
> Yes, the new utility should use nl80211 interface.
> But we have lots of legacy utility based on ioctl, it will be helpful
> to reduce massive work on refactoring.

That's not an excuse to implement bad interfaces. It's not really that
hard to convert ioctl based tools to use nl80211 testmode command, I
even have myself done that.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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