Return-path: Received: from mail30f.wh2.ocn.ne.jp ([220.111.41.203]:35655 "HELO mail30f.wh2.ocn.ne.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752620Ab0CZAx5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:53:57 -0400 Received: from vs3008.wh2.ocn.ne.jp (125.206.180.171) by mail30f.wh2.ocn.ne.jp (RS ver 1.0.95vs) with SMTP id 1-0189404835 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:53:55 +0900 (JST) From: Bruno Randolf To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 00/10] ANI for ath5k Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:53:48 +0900 Cc: Luis Rodriguez , Derek Smithies , "bob@bobcopeland.com" , "ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" References: <20100325054603.10697.48915.stgit@tt-desk> <201003260927.57491.br1@einfach.org> <20100326004431.GA2385@tux> In-Reply-To: <20100326004431.GA2385@tux> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201003260953.49021.br1@einfach.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 26 March 2010 09:44:31 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > as well, we all agree that there should be userland controls. the > > questions is just about the interface to use. > > ANI is specific to Atheros cards so debugfs would do it. If we want to > have a more rigit API we could use a configfs entry for ath9k. debugfs definetly is the wrong place! users might compile the module with debugging disabled (for performance reasons, e.g.). are you sure about configfs? as far as i read about it it's for the dynamic creation of kernel objects, which is not what we are doing here. or did the rules change in the mean time? bruno