Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:56691 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752254AbZJAUNy (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:13:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] cfg80211: firmware and hardware version From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "John W. Linville" , Kalle Valo , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <43e72e890910011256v18b30e7ck420ce80b5d35fdcb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090924180048.14503.9579.stgit@tikku> <43e72e890909241320j592e347die8a14f8bdd962ffb@mail.gmail.com> <20090925044258.GA2722@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890909250953r1714c79bsa679b96ca6f5797@mail.gmail.com> <20091001011340.GA3123@tuxdriver.com> <87fxa3qjt2.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> <20091001151820.GA2895@tuxdriver.com> <873a63qe6e.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> <20091001170722.GC2895@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890910011256v18b30e7ck420ce80b5d35fdcb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:12:34 -0700 Message-Id: <1254427954.3538.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 13:56 -0600, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > > I don't predict a huge problem if there are > > valid extensions required for use by wireless drivers in the future. > > But for now, I'd like to see us make use of some of the debugging > > facilities available in the ethtool API -- hopefully the iwlwifi guys > > are listening... ;-) > > Does the same apply to wimax then? Ethtool for 802.11 and wimax? Eh. Not really -- WiMAX is not eth-frame based, but IP based. The WiMAX stack doesn't require any type of framing/network device typing requirement. That is left up to the device driver writer (although yes, emulating eth is easier). -- -- Inaky