Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:35:13 -0700 | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:49:39AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:16 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > OK, I'm going to ask a stupid question. Why is the kernel<->wireless > > driver interface have to be tied to the userspace<->wireless > > interface? > > Haha. Because Jean thinks it isn't and thus everything is fine. But in > reality it is. > > > Is there some reason why this would be too hard to do with the current > > interface? > > Yes: drivers are expected to mostly handle the ioctls directly without a > layer between them and userspace.
Once again, your facts are totally wrong about Wireless Extensions. Have you ever looked at the code in the kernel ? I guarantee you that adding whatever specific WE translation is quite easy. In this precise case, this would only increase confusion, so this should be considered bad API practice. Regards,
Jean
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