From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Improve wireless netdev detection
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:44:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1470919457.12075.5.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470261515-2830-1-git-send-email-denkenz@gmail.com> (sfid-20160803_161400_172995_F10633C5)
On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 16:58 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> The current mechanism to detect hot-plug / unplug of wireless devices
> is
> somewhat arcane. One has to listen to NEW_WIPHY/DEL_WIPHY events
> over
> nl80211 as well as RTM_NEWLINK / RTM_DELLINK events over rtnl, then
> somehow find a correlation between these events. This involves
> userspace
> sending GET_INTERFACE or GET_WIPHY commands to the kernel, which
> incurs
> additional roundtrips.
>
Applied. I squashed 1/2 since it's kinda pointless to have a patch
introducing infrastructure that's not used.
I also made some minor cleanups - please check (both that it's right,
and for next time)
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-11 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-03 21:58 [PATCH v3 0/3] Improve wireless netdev detection Denis Kenzior
2016-08-03 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] nl80211: Add nl80211_notify_iface Denis Kenzior
2016-08-03 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] core: Always notify of new wireless netdevs Denis Kenzior
2016-08-03 21:58 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] core: Always notify when wireless netdev is removed Denis Kenzior
2016-08-11 12:44 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-08-11 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Improve wireless netdev detection Denis Kenzior
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