[RFC] Wireless extensions rethink
From: | "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman-AT-intel.com> | |
To: | <netdev-AT-oss.sgi.com> | |
Subject: | [RFC] Wireless extensions rethink | |
Date: | Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:33:10 -0700 |
Jeff suggested in an earlier post that there is an opportunity to totally rethink the wireless extensions now that we have wireless-2.6. Let's get rid of the iotcl and /proc interfaces as Jeff suggests: 1) iw_handler API goes away and is replaced by struct net_device::wireless_ops (ala ethtool_ops). 2) sysfs get/set mapping for wireless_ops. 3) iw_statistics just becomes one of the wireless_ops. 4) Remove /proc/net/wireless support from wireless.c. (Already have sysfs support for the same :) 5) No private handler support. If you need private support, pass it in some other way (custom sysfs of modparam). Or, better yet, make a case that others could benefit and move into wireless_ops as standard. 6) Convert drivers from iw_handler and iw_statistics to wireless_ops. 7) Rewrite iw* tools to use sysfs interface rather than ioctl. (scriptable tools?) 8) [Optional] Remove iotcl interface. May want to keep for backward compat with legacy tools? Easy to map between ioctl and wireless_ops in wireless.c. 9) [Open] What to do about wireless events? Any ideas? Proposed sysfs layout: class/ `-- net |-- eth[x] |-- wireless |-- statistics | |-- beacon | |-- crypt | `-- ... `-- control |-- commit |-- name |-- network_id |-- freq `-- ... Is someone already working on this??? Comments? -scott