Re: [RFC] Wireless extensions rethink

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> I was thinking along the same lines, however I was taking the ethtool
> interface as the starting point (using a single ioctl for all wireless
> operations). The private handlers would just have to be converted to
> plain ioctls handled by the driver itself.
>
> The attached patch can be used as a starting point for this.
> It is not complete (not by far), but it shows the basic structure.
> I've called the structure wlantool_ops, again using the example set by
> ethtool.
>
> Comments?
For what it's worth, I like the idea of using a single IOCTL similar
to ethtool...

Ben

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