Vladimir Kondratiev <[email protected]> writes: > Introduce netdev IOCTLs, to be used by the debug tools. > > Allows to read/write single dword value or > memory block, aligned to dword > Different address modes supported: > - BAR offset > - Firmware "linker" address > - target's AHB bus > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <[email protected]>
An ioctl interface for a wireless driver? IMHO that would have been ok in 2004, but not in 2014. Isn't there really better way to implement this? > +/* Numbers SIOCDEVPRIVATE and SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 1 > + * are used by Android devices to implement PNO (preferred network offload). > + * Albeit it is temporary solution, use different numbers to avoid conflicts > + */ Comments like this make me even more worried that that this is just yet another way to implement wext iwpriv interface. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
