On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:29 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > We might want to take the time to fix up a few of the ambiguities of > WEXT that we've encountered over the past few years:
Yes, I definitely agree. > o Separate attributes for signal strength units; signed integer type for > dBm, unsigned integer type for RSSI. One 8-bit var to represent both is > just too confusing for people, evidently (which is true...) Yes, agreed, they should be separated. In general, I think that one attribute should always have a single meaning and unit attached, except for explicitly unit-less attributes (number of frames or whatever), or attributes that explicitly have no stable unit (raw rssi). > o Merge functionality ENCODE and ENCODEEXT handlers into one Good one. I'm still not sure whether we should have an attribute for this, or a command. The whole key business seems rather complex and it might be good to have a command 'set key' with say a possible attribute for the mac address of a pairwise key, a key material attribute and an IV attribute or something. Otherwise we'll end up parsing the contents of an attribute again, which rather sucks... On the other hand, having it as a command won't allow the user to optimize setting the key and other things at once. I'm not too sure we should pay all that much attention to this problem though, it can't take forever and typically a user with such a card won't be changing the key or parameters all the time, hence it's usually probably done only at boo or association time. johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
