Re: RFC: mac80211: add ethtool support

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 05:42:53PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:34 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >> Johannes Berg wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:18 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >>>>     mac80211: add ethtool support
> >>>>     
> >>>>     Add ethtool support and add a drvname field to struct ieee80211_ops, which is
> >>>>     used for ethtool driver information. This is useful with multiple different
> >>>>     wireless cards to find out which device is using which driver.
> >>>>     
> >>> I thought we _had_ ethtool support via cfg80211?!
> >> Mhh good point :) For some reason it didn't show any information, but
> >> that might have been a mistake on my part. I'll give it another shot :)
> > 
> > It probably won't show the driver name because we haven't pushed that
> > through in any way?
> 
> Its actually showing:
> 
> # ethtool -i wlan0
> Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported
> 
> which shouldn't happen, since the callback is defined. I'll
> have a closer look at this.

What kernel are you using?

[linville-t400.local]:> ethtool -i wlan0
driver: iwlagn
version: 2.6.32-rc8-wl
firmware-version: 8.24.2.12
bus-info: 0000:03:00.0

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