Re: WCONF, netlink based WE replacement.

[Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:15:03PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de> 2006-01-12 18:24
> > This is an attempt to rewrite the Wireless Extensions
> > userspace API, using netlink sockets.
> > There should also be a notification API, to inform
> > userspace for changes (config changes, state changes, etc).
> > It is not implemented, yet.
> 
> I'll only comment on the netlink bits and leave the rest to
> others. I'd highly recommend the use of attributes instead
> of fixed message structures to allow the interface to be
> flexible to extensions while staying binary compatible.

I can only second Thomas' suggestion.  The power and flexibility of the
use of netlink is only really unveiled if you use attributes.   This way
you can easily extend your data structures later on without breaking
compatibility, etc.

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- Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>          	        http://gnumonks.org/
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