* Re: [PATCH] iw: Display-interface-generation-if-available
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@ 2015-10-08 9:36 ` Johannes Berg
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2015-10-08 9:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Olsson, Ola; +Cc: 'linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org'
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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