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SubjectRe: State of the Union: Wireless
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:31:24PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:00 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> > * "master" interface as real device node
> > * Virtual interfaces (net_devices)
>
> I didn't want to spam the netdev wiki with this (yet) so I collected
> some more structured things outside. Anyone feel free to edit:
> http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/802.11

From someone who has no idea at all (yet) about 802.11: why character
device, and not sysfs or configfs files? Like

TASK: get list of MAC addresses available to hardware device (usually only one for current hw)

cat /sys/devices/path/to/device/wireless/address

TASK: get list of virtual devices including (some of) their properties

ls -l /sys/devices/path/to/device/wireless/
...
wlan0 -> /sys/class/net/wlan0
wlan1 -> /sys/class/net/wlan1

TASK: create virtual device (with arbitrary type, netdev name and mac address)
^^^^^^
isn't nameif / udev for that?

echo "$type" > /sys/devices/path/to/device/wireless/new_if
... we get uevents for this new interface; in this we can set the
mac adress doing:
echo "$mac" > /sys/class/net/wlan0/wireless/address

TASK: configure virtual device (key is the device name since that needs to be unique anyway)

echo "$some_config_option_for_virtual_device" > /sys/class/net/wlan0/wireless/some_option
echo "$some_config_option_for_physical_device"> /sys/devices/path/to/dev/wireless/some_other_option


Of course the configuration userspace tool would use libsysfs for that, not
"echo" scripts... but they'd work too.

Dominik
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