Return-path: Received: from purkki.adurom.net ([80.68.90.206]:34546 "EHLO purkki.adurom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964787Ab1GOK4O (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:56:14 -0400 To: Gery Kahn Cc: , Luciano Coelho Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] wl12xx Export chip id to sysfs References: <1310647673-10144-1-git-send-email-geryk@ti.com> <1310647673-10144-2-git-send-email-geryk@ti.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:56:12 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1310647673-10144-2-git-send-email-geryk@ti.com> (Gery Kahn's message of "Thu\, 14 Jul 2011 15\:47\:53 +0300") Message-ID: <874o2nx16b.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (sfid-20110715_125617_553053_B039FBDD) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Gery Kahn writes: > Export the chip id to userspace. This helps to change application behavior > according to architecture of the wl12xx chip. We already support exporting this type of information through ethtool's ioctl interface using the wiphy.hw_version, which was specifially added for this purpose. That's much better than yet another sysfs file. -- Kalle Valo