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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Olsson, Ola" <Ola.Olsson@sonymobile.com>
Cc: "'linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iw: Display-interface-generation-if-available
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:36:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444296973.2131.14.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9A9E8106200C64AB9ECC8CAE21CE73A05AB61FECAA4@seldmbx02.corpusers.net>

On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 12:30 +0200, Olsson, Ola wrote:
[attached patch]

That email didn't make it to the list, perhaps due to the attachment.

> +	if (tb_msg[NL80211_ATTR_GENERATION])
> +> 	> 	> printf("%s\tgeneration %d\n", indent, nla_get_u32(tb_msg[NL80211_ATTR_GENERATION]));

That said, I don't really think this makes sense.

The generation field is really only useful for applications that go re
-dump if they detect a change in generation between messages, but
clearly that's not the case in iw and I don't want to encourage anyone
to script iw to the point of doing this.

johannes


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