Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:39:00 +0000 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless API Message-ID: <CAOFF%2BZ3zWR1tJkOvdBE-g27Bm7a3JrG44EhMAVm2AOKxueHvBA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <525D6CBA.4010101@pcbsd.org> References: <525B2802.5050904@gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmomu3nq9tckFC=x5f95DpVXNG5jxawToQfknvx3zWszCfQ@mail.gmail.com> <CADRZFmrMsLYT-txAkJuEg2UW%2Bd6nQ0N%2BJv=je8Q=tVk-iq8Hyg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=7To-vO=-EcueueT6TmBdU5VtUXGaWVwX8UOEabKB4-A@mail.gmail.com> <CADRZFmpxgBSpCor1ntPwE%2B-W5z58mj=vL-6SBDLWcyx4Czh0VA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmontQCyRSht0r2wo-fU92%2BgpdnOUvTGoh6t9qv20rTjSCA@mail.gmail.com> <CADRZFmpcQM3BcP3adPROk2goLU3Kq4PLyqrOv2ctDTWZWqBmWQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomHjGUob1enQ4f6K=SrTDQXjmqX_152tar6MvB8Uv7CiQ@mail.gmail.com> <525D6CBA.4010101@pcbsd.org>
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On Oct 15, 2013 12:26 PM, "Kris Moore" <kris@pcbsd.org> wrote: > > On 10/15/2013 11:15, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Well, up until now the interactions have all been via the ioctl API or the > > ifconfig command. Both are cumbersome. > > > > There's a decent amount of library code in ifconfig for wifi and regulatory > > related stuff. It could be broken out into a public library.. > > > > -adrian > > > > Yea, our PC-BSD network utils are using a mixture of C ioctl and > "ifconfig" parsing, +1 for a public library API at some point ;) This really is somthing that should be brought to the FreeBSD foundations attetion. As an example the network manager in Gnome hasn't been ported for years, and I belive the largest part of the reason is lack of an API. The importance of this really can't be underestimated. Is there a formal way, to propose a project to the FreeBSD foundation? Sam Fourman Jr.
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