From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:24:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <462BE085.1050906@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177279412.21205.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Dan Williams wrote:
>
> Haha. Ok. NM should be smarter about this and convert channels
> returned by the driver into frequencies. In the end, I prefer
> frequencies where at all possible, because channel numbers are _not_
> unique (unless you use the the tuple of [standard, band, channel] where
> standard is something like "802.11" or "802.16", band is "a" or "bg").
My current (but not yet accepted) patch for ieee80211 outputs both channel and frequency as does the
"soon to be submitted" one for mac80211. I agree that frequency is unique; however, I find it easier
to think in terms of channels. In addition, I only use the bg band and have no confusion. If both
are listed, everyone should be happy.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-22 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-21 4:07 [PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results Larry Finger
2007-04-21 4:12 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-04-21 22:19 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-21 22:55 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-22 22:03 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-22 22:24 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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