From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Add netdev name to NL80211_CMD_STOP_AP event?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:39:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1433972365.3145.18.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5578AA11.2020505@candelatech.com> (sfid-20150610_232022_833916_9A1896A2)
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> While trying to make 'iw' able to print out something useful for
> the 'stop_ap' event, I notice there is not really any human friendly
> info in the message (just phy id (which may not match phy name), ifindex, and some other
> wiphy related numeric ID.
>
> Any reason not to add the netdev name (NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME) to this and
> related messages?
We're not really adding that *anywhere*, and you can trivially look it
up based on the ifindex, so why bother?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-10 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 21:20 Add netdev name to NL80211_CMD_STOP_AP event? Ben Greear
2015-06-10 21:39 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-06-10 21:43 ` Ben Greear
2015-06-10 21:49 ` Johannes Berg
2015-06-10 21:52 ` Ben Greear
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