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Message-Id: <1181859755.23567.3.camel@xo-28-0B-88.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:22:35 -0400
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
johannes@...solutions.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
hs4233@...l.mn-solutions.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libertas (private) ioctls vs. nl80211
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:48 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>> I suspect that the probability of your proposal succeeding would be increased
> >>> if you could prepare a patch...
> >> Here we go:
> >
> > I don't mind ripping them out, but it makes sense only if people are
> > actually signed up to implementing this on a higher layer. As such, I'd
> > need to get a sign-off from somebody actually involved in wireless mesh
> > stuff etc.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, linux-wireless, but AFAIK there has never been
> a single post or line of code written for a generic wireless _mesh_
> interface.
>
> My general sentiment is -- remove the pointless and iw-duplicated
> ioctls, but leave the mesh ones that won't see generic counterparts for
> years.
And that's what I did in the last pull you got from John; all pointless
and duplicated ioctls were removed. The only ones left are mesh
tweakables, an LED GPIO control ioctl, and a regulatory region/domain
thing. I agree the interface is somewhat ugly (like the
char-128/char-128 ones that return information from the mesh forwarding
table), and I also agree that we need to move to using netlink for this
sort of stuff in the future. There are _no_ ioctls that duplicate WEXT
functionality.
Dan
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