From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:55612 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932108Ab1JTLXC (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:23:02 -0400 Subject: Re: Available nl80211 multicast groups From: Johannes Berg To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Prata Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: (sfid-20111019_213118_071850_6AC04F5E) References: (sfid-20111019_213118_071850_6AC04F5E) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:22:57 +0200 Message-ID: <1319109777.3959.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20111020_132306_720481_56448CC3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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