Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:40:53 +0200
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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 21:31 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Alina,
>=20
> let me repeat what Johannes mentioned earlier, please don't send emails
> twice. Just use a proper working MUA and do Reply-All.
>=20
> > > and that is just plain wrong to begin with. If you want a one command=
 do
> > > everything, then do that in userspace and not inside a kernel API.
> >=20
> > Then why not implement deferent syscalls for floppy disks, hard disk
> drives, solid state disks and normal files? If you want one generic
> API than write an users-space library.
> >=20
> > Thought-out APIs sucks, MS-DOS rules!
>=20
> you are seriously comparing block devices to network device now? They
> are different, go figure. You better bring technical arguments that
> matter and not something far fetched from a total different technology.

Well you could make that comparison, if you do it correctly... I guess
the proposed mashed-up calls would be very much like configuring a
remote raid storage by writing to the block device it exports. Needless
(hopefully!!) to say, that is not a good idea.

johannes

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