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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless:  Print wiphy name in sysfs.
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On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:04 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:


> I use this to determine the phy device for a particular network device:
> 
> [root@dx-2u-ath5k lanforge]# cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/phy80211/name
> wiphy0

What's wrong with

basename $(readlink /sys/class/net/wlan0/phy80211)

?

johannes