Return-path: Received: from smtp01.colorado.edu ([128.138.128.141]:57139 "EHLO smtp01.Colorado.EDU" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753023AbXJXEi7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:38:59 -0400 Message-ID: <471EC944.2010700@colorado.edu> (sfid-20071024_053905_043502_15F53992) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:25:40 -0600 From: Eric W Anderson MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Kossifidis CC: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Dan Williams , Johannes Berg , ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville Subject: Proc usage (was: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 3/3] consistently use ath5k in printks) References: <1192540838-26985-1-git-send-email-bruno@thinktube.com> <1192540838-26985-2-git-send-email-bruno@thinktube.com> <1192540838-26985-3-git-send-email-bruno@thinktube.com> <1192540838-26985-4-git-send-email-bruno@thinktube.com> <1192619652.8841.13.camel@johannes.berg> <1192630172.10567.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43e72e890710170719o120f9dbak34f33d8218038dfc@mail.gmail.com> <40f31dec0710170926p3847b796gdf52f80297b7c117@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <40f31dec0710170926p3847b796gdf52f80297b7c117@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2529AEBFA576CA5DA0869514" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2529AEBFA576CA5DA0869514 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I realize that primary role of the driver is for actual use, rather than = for research, but... It's very useful in experiments to have /proc entries f= or all the settings that you don't normally think of as tunable. (e.g. turning = off antenna diversity, or ACKs, or changing the CCA thresholds). I'd really h= ate for knobs to go away because someone things they're not "really" needed, or b= ecause they're not worth merging into the new configuration framework. -Eric Nick Kossifidis wrote: > 2007/10/17, Luis R. Rodriguez : >> On 10/17/07, Dan Williams wrote: >>> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:14 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: >>>> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:20 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote: >>>> >>>>> the proc interface changed too from /proc/sys/dev/ath/ to /proc/sys= /dev/ath5k/ >>>> Ok, and why exactly is there a proc interface at all? >>> Yeah, it needs to die, we're not adding new proc interfaces to the >>> kernel. Stuff should be evaluated to see whether it's _really_ neede= d, >>> and if for some reason it is, merged into mac80211 or cfg80211, and t= hen >>> if that doesn't work, >> Agreed 200%. Die proc usage! >> >>> then maybe something in sysfs. >> Nah, configfs for generic configuration of kernel objects. I already >> have such module but it just had regdomain support. I plan on adding >> add/remove iface. >> >> Luis >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wirele= ss" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >=20 > I've already removed the whole proc stuff along with debug stuff in > base.c in madwifi-svn, i'll port patch here asap. >=20 --=20 Eric W. Anderson University of Colorado= eric.anderson@colorado.edu Dept. of Computer Science= phone: +1-720-984-8864 Systems Research Lab - ECCR 1B54= PGP key fingerprints: personal: 1BD4 CFCE 8B59 8D6E EA3E EBD5 4DC9 3E61 656C 462B academic: D3C5 D6FF EDED 9F1F C36D 53A3 74B7 53A6 3C74 5F12 --------------enig2529AEBFA576CA5DA0869514 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHHslKdLdTpjx0XxIRAjulAJwJivf3Lx702pI3QmA6II7TLu8ZBQCgrW6x L0H5VVx6ETEH9jOlMhtk6kc= =/lf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2529AEBFA576CA5DA0869514--