Re: rt2x00/rt2500 support

[Jiri Benc <jbenc suse cz>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:36:29 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Ok; this is because d80211 (at least as included in rt2x00 driver) isn't
> setting the wireless stats handler, which I believe makes the device
> show up in /proc/net/wireless.
> (...)
> 
> Jiri, what's involved here?  The actual handler for get_wireless_stats
> is quite simple; see below.  It returns a 'struct iw_statistics' for
> which it looks like all the information is available in d80211
> elsewhere.

There is no specific reason, nobody just have cared so far.

I think HAL is broken if it requires /proc/net/wireless to recognize
wireless device. There are better ways to achieve this (e.g. WE-specific
ioctls).

I put this request to the TODO list; that means it will be fixed but not
in a near future. Feel free to send a patch if you want it earlier.

Thanks,

 Jiri

> > > AFAIK, HAL looks at /proc/net/wireless, parses the interface names, and
> > > uses that to determine whether or not the device is a wireless device.
> > > Since it appears that /proc/net/wireless is eventually going away, HAL
> > > may need to get changed to recognize the /sys/class/ieee80211 directory
> > > that dscape presents, or something like that.

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs