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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "André Prata" <andreprata@ua.pt>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Available nl80211 multicast groups
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:22:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319109777.3959.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGEq-jBnU4gmb+A7ox3O0vwSr0HFkccEqBydH5cqNChZ_hTkDQ@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20111019_213118_071850_6AC04F5E)

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 20:30 +0100, André Prata wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I saw on your code that you resolve the multicas id of several groups
> for the nl80211 family /online/, like "scan" and "mlme". I'd like to
> know if there are defined constants for those IDs (i'm guessing
> they're not).

There's no list it seems -- you'll have to look at nl80211.c.

> Also I wanted to know what other groups exist and what messages I
> should expect from them (no docs, or my bad search skills?).
> Is there a multicast group to get reports on link quality changes, or
> similar, or is that only available through polling?

You can subscribe to such changes though I think only one application
can do that right now and wpa_s will do it.

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19 19:30 Available nl80211 multicast groups André Prata
2011-10-20 11:22 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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