Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752482AbWAFWXO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:23:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750998AbWAFWXO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:23:14 -0500 Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:51159 "EHLO stinky.trash.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750798AbWAFWXN (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:23:13 -0500 Message-ID: <43BEEDAA.5040009@trash.net> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:22:34 +0100 From: Patrick McHardy User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Lang CC: Marcel Holtmann , Michael Buesch , jgarzik@pobox.com, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless] References: <1136541243.4037.18.camel@localhost> <200601061200.59376.mbuesch@freenet.de> <1136547494.7429.72.camel@localhost> <200601061245.55978.mbuesch@freenet.de> <1136549423.7429.88.camel@localhost> <43BE6697.3030009@trash.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1060 Lines: 23 David Lang wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> I think the main advantages of netlink over a character device is its >> flexible format, which is easily extendable, and multicast capability, >> which can be used to broadcast events and configuration changes. Its >> also good to have all the net stuff accessible in a uniform way. > > > character devices are far easier to script. this really sounds like the > type of configuration stuff that sysfs was designed for. can we avoid > yet another configuration tool that's required? I think its not just configuration but also event handling for associating, link layer authentication, ..., which is not something handled by scripts but by some daemon. It might also want to set up routes or ip addresses which is done using netlink anyway. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/