On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 06:25 -0400, Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote: > - if they wish to support wificonfig, the wifi drivers can > additionally provide support the WLAN* ioctls.
I think the EOL and removal of wificonfig is very much overdue, is it not? > The advantage of this proposal is that wifi drivers will now be > able to use all of the Brussels features > > Concerns: > > 1. wificonfig will not work with the setprop/getprop ioctls What's keeping us from removing wificonfig at this point? > 2. there are opensolaris drivers that use the old ioctl interface > to be considered. > > Regarding #1: should wificonfig be supported in Nevada? Can it be > EOL'ed. I think so, but perhaps the folks involved in the WiFi GLDv3 case can comment. That case stated the roadmap for wificonfig. -Seb
