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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Read the TSF via debugfs

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On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 05:47 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> Alina, a few notes on this series. I see you have used the mac80211
> ops get_tsf via debugfs, and then added one for ath5k and ath9k. It
> would seem a driver-specific get tsf from debugfs is not needed then.
> The set_tsf is the only one that seems to be driver specific and could
> probably go into their own debugfs. 

agree

>  Anyway how about instead of all
> this just adding a new mac80211 ops for set_tsf for mac80211 as well
> and then just add nl80211 commands to be able to get/set/reset them?
> This way if the driver implements them it'll be through a generic
> interface and also we can start using it via iw.

disagree. who the hell needs that, except for debugging? Why allow
setting it anyway?

johannes

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