From: vadim4j@gmail.com
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] wireless: Supporting of IFLA_INFO_KIND rtnl attribute
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:23:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141209232305.GA17043@angus-think.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24A120F8-952B-4471-88A6-463CBAD168BE@holtmann.org>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:23:14AM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> > On Dec 9, 2014, at 23:21, Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It allows to identify the wlan kind of device for the user application,
> > e.g.:
> >
> > # ip -d link
> >
> > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default
> > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 promiscuity 0
> > 2: enp0s25: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> > link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
> > 3: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> > link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
> > wlan
>
> have we considered also exposing the mode of this netdev. So for example sta,ap,p2p-go,p2p-client etc. If we can send dynamic updates via RTNL, we could easily tell the networking management system what type of wireless device we have here. I am thinking about it like "wlan/p2p-go" etc. Or should this be better kept strictly to "wlan".
>
> And I am not sure RTNL would be capable of changing this kind strings at runtime anyway.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
May be better do not mix 2 things in one attribute?
Regards,
Vadim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-09 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-09 22:21 [PATCH v3] wireless: Supporting of IFLA_INFO_KIND rtnl attribute Vadim Kochan
2014-12-09 23:23 ` Marcel Holtmann
2014-12-09 23:23 ` vadim4j [this message]
2014-12-10 8:04 ` Bastian Bittorf
2014-12-10 8:12 ` Johannes Berg
2014-12-10 20:35 ` Marcel Holtmann
2014-12-10 20:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2014-12-12 12:43 ` Johannes Berg
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