From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:48869 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753596AbZCMPAe (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:00:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:54:45 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: drop wext channel list if too long Message-ID: <20090313145445.GC5551@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20090313_160049_316222_72658912) References: <1236882244.25931.5.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1236882244.25931.5.camel@johannes.local> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:24:04PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > wext limits the number of channels it can list to 32, we obey > that limitation but show a partial list which is confusing. > Thus, when going over the limit, drop the list completely to > make the users aware that something is wrong and hopefully > prompt them to use iw instead. We still let iwlist print out > the total number of available channels. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Will this make wpa_supplicant or Networkmanager barf? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.