Received: by 2002:a25:ab43:0:0:0:0:0 with SMTP id u61csp6062022ybi; Wed, 29 May 2019 02:11:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxjyjniQt0ChUG9timWDEQ775supN0er1MRISFnEnMJGmvwIi3LC2gd579rD1OPWycwRRhd X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:6ac8:: with SMTP id i8mr71912047plt.27.1559121111204; Wed, 29 May 2019 02:11:51 -0700 (PDT) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1559121111; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=K5bkb9/e2K+odkhYQod5d57xa5gqkHtzpfSJd8O19R9u29K/p/jKsoQEYXjfzrR8UA Yq/FSwv+3PYJQoes591C+7SkDTy6O9TZB0a8j+IeI+Mb0lwXTYkLsiLkNSKK7fYH9G2m ING/RnL6UwSWs0l30L3Vfs5EnQpg/uu1bpfbVz01SgGJAkW1nQWV9cGie/X0TNoJAM69 H5RgnRHW/yHM8diD7QyjlD43F2pBwGegICYnF/ihgtv5LHTU7PNhGp3ce3YqgUNJYulZ MUwc6YG71nosM0k3Ybr6vG3WfTBwntD+8EjVaorjk2jCY/lzeosWjS0Hvl0Og50Pi5ii PZtg== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=list-id:precedence:sender:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :references:in-reply-to:date:to:from:subject:message-id; bh=zPqfFq5d4lirj0Edko/whCZ5RWqXRpwmNtGKe39IVMI=; b=upZksiBOLNU+RmlT2XeJLTk/yPYUhIl4oathnB55qaqjGy+5L76YbyPWATW96Edtwq wsfwjMacxlodeIHuMzHBe5mJ+Y2Bn/+3cC/bSbL972MFjePE0RFbmyFa4P84ayhxqW/k VsEA5Iaq0VOCHurC/C4fj2/hN7JeosonSxF+ZyrV+v3UUyqw8jpg+vdT2/Q+WTU/cSl7 nWDocou/RssjH88f8Ojtv1IAOKDDS7ohSIv4U1AOwsRCULcCAs8TFWC3dMCHD50yFA9P TZZ6TunKwiRmxny0nELlFN1esLP5kz8mYSwpX8zQvwdkRTybT4nXFIzgVHnVDzb1O5VQ CPKQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id ci5si24961424plb.433.2019.05.29.02.11.23; Wed, 29 May 2019 02:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726125AbfE2JJL (ORCPT + 99 others); Wed, 29 May 2019 05:09:11 -0400 Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.62]:51022 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725990AbfE2JJL (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 May 2019 05:09:11 -0400 Received: by sipsolutions.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hVua5-0003pL-NY; Wed, 29 May 2019 11:09:09 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FYI: vendor specific nl80211 API upstream From: Johannes Berg To: Denis Kenzior , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 11:09:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20190528_193645_252220_40C340E7) References: (sfid-20190528_193645_252220_40C340E7) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5 (3.28.5-2.fc28) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 12:36 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote: > > I'm guessing that you guys considered and rejected the idea of pushing > these out to a separate, vendor specific genl family instead? We do actually use that internally (though mostly for cases where we don't have a cfg80211 connection like manufacturing support), but vendor commands are there and people do like to use them :-) The idea with formalizing this is that they actually get more visibility, and I hope that this will lead to more forming of real nl80211 API too. johannes