From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 8 08:26:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4084B1065670 for ; Sun, 8 May 2011 08:26:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9EB8FC1D for ; Sun, 8 May 2011 08:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id LAA14910; Sun, 08 May 2011 11:26:09 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1QIzJZ-0007Bi-3n; Sun, 08 May 2011 11:26:09 +0300 Message-ID: <4DC653A0.8080405@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 11:26:08 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110503 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <4DC5157E.2020606@FreeBSD.org> <20110508083909.00003ef4@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20110508083909.00003ef4@unknown> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pls review: dummy handlers for linux wlan ioctls X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 08:26:16 -0000 on 08/05/2011 09:39 Alexander Leidinger said the following: > On Sat, 07 May 2011 12:48:46 +0300 Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> >> The purpose of this code is just to reduce amount of noise produced >> when some software uses those ioctls (e.g. newer Skype). All ioctls >> return ENOTSUP. > > Not a review, just a question: Do we want to decide that we will not > implement those ioctl's in the linuxulator? I haven't heard about anyone planning to implement them or needing them. But that doesn't imply any decision, of course. > If the answer is yes, I'm OK with a patch like yours going in. If the > answer is no, I object to such a patch, as it would hide the missing > functionality. Well, it could be argued that if anyone really needs that functionality he will sure notice that it is missing even without the kernel messages. > If you want to shut up an application regarding this, I suggest to > write a wrapper-ioctl which is then used with LD_PRELOAD, if you provide > the source and makefile, I'm willing to compile it in my F10 VM for > you. I am not sure if I want these complexities (at the moment). I can just keep the patch to myself :-) > Out of curiosity: what is skype doing with direct wlan calls? No idea. It seems that it tries to get a wlan name at the very least (maybe it's just a way to test if an interface is wireless). Maybe they explain why they do it somewhere. -- Andriy Gapon