Re: iw packaging

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 22:19 +0200, Stefanik G=C3=A1bor wrote:

> So, the actual command used, for example, is:
> iw dev wlan0 interface add mon0 type monitor

that seems fine.

> Similarly, the code used for removing interfaces is
> IW_ERROR=3D`iw dev "$iface" interface del 2>&1 | grep "nl80211 not fo=
und"`
> If I interpret your mail correctly, then this should be changed to:
> IW_ERROR=3D`iw dev "$iface" del 2>&1 | grep "nl80211 not found"`

I don't know why you insist on that grep, it should exit with a non-zer=
o
status code.... but you can use both forms, I added the invisible alias=
=2E

> Will the same syntax change be made for the add feature? I mean this:
> iw dev wlan0 add mon0 type monitor

No. What are you adding?

> Also, the following syntax would be even better:
> iw --add mon0 --dev=3Dwlan0 --type=3Dmonitor
> or:
> iw -dwlan0 -tmonitor add mon0
>=20
> Or at least allowing stuff like this:
> iw type monitor add mon0 dev wlan0

No. All of those are gross and not very object oriented.

> An experimental branch of aircrack-ng contains a slightly different
> version, which also has these additional changes:
> -Mesh support has been removed (as I couldn't get it compile with
> -Wall -Werror, which is a requirement for inclusion into aircrack-ng)

That's an extremely stupid requirement as warnings may pop up on variou=
s
platforms which you cannot anticipate, making it hard for users.


Anyway, you're free to fork it and do whatever you like that aircrack-n=
g
needs, but please don't call it iw and don't encourage debian to ship i=
t
as 'iw'.

johannes

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