netdev - Re: [irda-users] [PATCH 5/7] [IrDA] IrDA monitor mode

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Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:42:40 +0300
From:	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, irda-users@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [irda-users] [PATCH 5/7] [IrDA] IrDA monitor mode

Hi Dave,

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:11:43PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: samuel@...tiz.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:32:07 +0300
> 
> > Through a protocol specific ioctl, one can disable IrDA TX in order to
> > monitor an IrDA link.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
> 
> I'd really rather see IRDA use netlink instead of these
> wonky ioctls, but whatever, if you want to put this dirty
> into your stack and you're the maintainer I can't really
> stop you :-)
I actually asked for your advice about it some time ago:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117590341703544&w=2
But by looking at the flow of emails on netdev sent to you (and that's only
netdev...), I can easily see how you could have missed it :-)

Regarding this patch, I came up with this ioctl because I thought
implementing an IrDA netlink layer would be an overkill for just one single
command.
What I propose is that you revert this patch before we introduce a new ioctl
upstream while I start implementing a netlink IrDA layer. Would that be ok
with you, or can we let this new ioctl in and have it coexisting with a future
netlink layer ?

Cheers,
Samuel.

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