From: Dad <ccmcphe@verizon.net>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mac80211 question
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:13:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4804A9F7.1030507@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208188488.31015.34.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Our tech support people use it - to distinguish which wireless is for
which work group.
You see, we have servers with multiple wireless's and depending on the
work group and
location, the nickname aids the tech support people to identify what
wireless a person is
using. That is the only reason why we use it. Right now I have created
code for those IOCTL's,
so if mac80211 doesn't have it, we can just implement it on our servers.
-Tex
> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:38 -0400, Dad wrote:
>
>> Are there any plans to include the nickname into mac80211? I noticed
>> that the version I have the ioctl's for nickname are
>> NULL'ed out.
>>
>
> Any particular reason you want nickname? AFAIK it was only used for
> compat with pre-802.11 stuff like WaveLAN and such. It's pretty much
> useless these days. Some drivers used it to signal whether they were
> connected or not, but that's a completely bogus use of nickname and not
> something that mac80211 should support.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-14 15:38 mac80211 question Dad
2008-04-14 15:54 ` Dan Williams
2008-04-15 13:13 ` Dad [this message]
2008-04-15 13:21 ` Michael Buesch
2008-04-15 21:01 ` Dad
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