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

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Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:46:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	samuel@...tiz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, irda-users@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [irda-users] [PATCH 5/7] [IrDA] IrDA monitor mode

From: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:42:40 +0300

> 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 ?

The only concern is that once we add the ioctl, we can't get rid of
it, it's there forever.  Please consider this very carefully.

You might discover that once you create the IRDA netlink
layer, you will find it convenient to make it support
all the IRDA stack configuration not just this one thing
:-)
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