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From: Bastian Bittorf <bittorf@bluebottle.com>
To: vadim4j@gmail.com
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	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 09:04:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141210080408.GH7713@medion.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141209232305.GA17043@angus-think.lan>

* vadim4j@gmail.com <vadim4j@gmail.com> [10.12.2014 08:55]:
> > 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.
> 
> May be better do not mix 2 things in one attribute?

i like the idea. who is the potential audience of the attribute beside the user?  
meaning: whoever want to scan for the keyword 'wlan' can do so, even with 'wlan/xy'

bye, bastian

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-10  8:07 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
2014-12-10  8:04     ` Bastian Bittorf [this message]
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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