From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan E <trg_info@mailhaven.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userspace tools: Roadmap?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:35:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1232012138.4007.1.camel@johannes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31436f4a0901142352u2b60f9e6n5940835f13658b37@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090115_085234_636643_75C8A3D1)
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On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 09:52 +0200, David Shwatrz wrote:
> >> For instance, how do I command a
> >> channel change from userspace? iw doesn't have that. >Should it?
>
> >Yes, it should, and nl80211 even supports it, but iw itself >doesn't yet.
> >That's fairly easy to fix, too, but then iw won't support actually
> >telling mac80211 to scan and associate etc.
>
> Can you please explain why addition of channel changing in iw will
> cause iw to not be able to support scanning and association ?
> (wireless-tools has all this options).
Eh, no, I worded that wrongly, I meant that it currently _doesn't_
support scan/associate. And nor does nl80211, so that's not easy to fix
(well, scan is WIP)
johannes
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-07 23:29 Userspace tools: Roadmap? Dan E
2008-12-08 7:02 ` Rami Rosen
2008-12-08 8:13 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-08 23:18 ` Dan E
2008-12-08 23:26 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-08 23:52 ` pat-lkml
2008-12-09 0:02 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-09 0:08 ` pat-lkml
2008-12-12 4:58 ` pat-lkml
2008-12-12 16:24 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-12-12 21:58 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-12 22:37 ` pat-lkml
2008-12-12 22:38 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-12 23:36 ` pat-lkml
2008-12-12 23:42 ` pat-lkml
2008-12-12 23:50 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-12 23:48 ` pat-lkml
2008-12-13 0:05 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-13 0:10 ` pat-lkml
2008-12-13 0:10 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-09 0:43 ` Dan E
2008-12-09 0:51 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-09 1:01 ` Dan E
2008-12-09 1:05 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-15 7:52 ` David Shwatrz
2009-01-15 9:35 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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