From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>,
linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:29:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1366637397.8637.7.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMcMvsjh4y=84hM+dCcFvb1xxSq5c3HqTBg6VyaCZkh5s=E5yA@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20130418_001419_120365_42D87327)
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 15:14 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:
> I believe the documents for "iw" state explicitly that we shouldn't
> screen-scrape it?
Well, you specifically control your system. I'd also be happy to add
some (maybe a bit hidden) commands to print out _just_ the (numeric)
type, to aid scripting? All I'm trying to say with that though is that
you shouldn't rely on specific output formatting, particularly not with
scan results and "iw list" etc.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-22 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-17 22:06 [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type Bing Zhao
2013-04-17 22:09 ` Johannes Berg
2013-04-18 6:14 ` Nicolas Cavallari
2013-04-18 6:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 7:03 ` Paul Stewart
2013-04-18 15:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] ` <CAMcMvsjh4y=84hM+dCcFvb1xxSq5c3HqTBg6VyaCZkh5s=E5yA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-22 13:29 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-04-22 13:55 ` Paul Stewart
2013-04-17 22:54 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 19:03 ` Bing Zhao
2013-04-18 19:10 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 19:18 ` Arend van Spriel
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