Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:06:34 -0700 | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Subject | Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k |
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Adding a few more people for wider review on this.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:53:48PM -0700, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2010 09:44:31 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > as well, we all agree that there should be userland controls. the > > > questions is just about the interface to use. > > > > ANI is specific to Atheros cards so debugfs would do it. If we want to > > have a more rigit API we could use a configfs entry for ath9k. > > debugfs definetly is the wrong place! users might compile the module with > debugging disabled (for performance reasons, e.g.). > > are you sure about configfs? as far as i read about it it's for the dynamic > creation of kernel objects, which is not what we are doing here. or did the > rules change in the mean time?
I intended on writing a file system API for 802.11 management a while ago through configfs, the only reason why I put it aside is our focus was to get a netlink based API done. I think its reasonable to use it for configuration of specific devices parameters though given that we don't have a private API through nl80211.
Luis
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