[PATCH 4/7] nl80211: Introduce new Vendor header file for driver interface with IFX OUI

Felix Fietkau nbd at nbd.name
Fri Apr 28 05:46:53 PDT 2023


On 25.04.23 18:02, Gokul Sivakumar wrote:
> Use a new Vendor header file to maintain Infineon specific vendor subcmds,
> attributes and events. And the vendor subcmds and event NL80211 messages
> are nested under NL80211_CMD_VENDOR with IFX OUI.
> 
> IFX OUI: 00:03:19 (Refer "Infineon AG" in https://standards-oui.ieee.org/)
> 
> And introduce a new build flag CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211_IFX for Infineon WiFi.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gokul Sivakumar <gokulkumar.sivakumar at infineon.com>
What's the reason for putting all of this into vendor/driver specific 
hackery instead of adding proper upstream nl80211 APIs?

- Felix



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