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Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add firmware and hardware version to wiphy

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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> It's useful to provide firmware and hardware version to user space and have a
>> generic interface to retrieve them. Users can provide the version information
>> in bug reports etc.
>>
>> Add fields for firmware and hardware version to struct wiphy and return
>> them to user space in NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY reply.
>
> Wow that was quick :)

Yeah, it's easy to hack here at Plumbers :D

>>        NL80211_ATTR_PID,
>>
>> +       NL80211_ATTR_FW_VERSION,
>> +       NL80211_ATTR_HW_VERSION,
>> +
>
> Some kdoc on this would be nice.

Definitely. I'll add it in v2 if the implementation is ok otherwise.

>>        /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
>>
>>        __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
>> diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
>> index 3d874c6..de3da19 100644
>> --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
>> +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
>> @@ -1070,6 +1070,8 @@ struct cfg80211_ops {
>>  * and registration/helper functions
>>  */
>>
>> +#define CFG80211_VERSION_LEN 32
>
> Probably best to just remove this or at least make this not just
> CFG80211_VERSION_LEN, seems like this is related to cfg80211's version
> somehow.

The length is used four time so I would not want to remove it. Maybe
rename to CFG80211_FWHW_VERSION_LEN?

Kalle
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