Hi Johannes, >>> That's not particularly hard to figure out, for example by looking at >>> sysfs. >>> >>> Is this really so time-constrained/important/... that you can't do that? >> >> It does not seem very practical to dig this information from sysfs as >> the same information can be easily get via netlink as this patch shows. > > Well, that's a slippery slope. I'd consider it more practical to use > existing APIs instead of (gratuitously) inventing new ones. It'll even > work on older kernels as an added benefit.
I see that different. The component that handles the emulation of the new wireless device should be independent from the component driving it. I prefer to have a race free way of obtaining the needed information without having to monitor nl80211 and sysfs for this. Especially with the use cases that we have in mind it has no business with these other interfaces. We have been down this route with the bridge interface where people had to dig out information from sysfs and it did not work out nicely. So now everything moves to netlink. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
