[haiku-commits] Re: r35008 - in haiku/branches/developer/colin/wireless: headers/posix/sys headers/private/net src/add-ons/kernel/network/devices/ieee80211 src/add-ons/kernel/network/devices/ieee80211/stack

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:40:52 +0100

Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler schrieb:
> > I'm not sure why you want to make this one public (the ioctl()
> > interface should be public and documented instead IMO),
> Public so that other WiFi drivers can inherit from it. The driver
> part
> will consist of a generic class that can be overwritten on
>  per driver basis, where needed.

I'm not sure I understand this correctly, but why then using a driver
at all? A driver is primarily a way to access kernel resources in
userland.
And you probably know that you can only inherit from inline classes (or
static libraries) in the kernel?

Bye,
   Axel.


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