Re: RFC: mac80211: add ethtool support

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 05:42:53PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:34 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>>> Johannes Berg wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:18 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>>>>>     mac80211: add ethtool support
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     Add ethtool support and add a drvname field to struct ieee80211_ops, which is
>>>>>>     used for ethtool driver information. This is useful with multiple different
>>>>>>     wireless cards to find out which device is using which driver.
>>>>>>     
>>>>> I thought we _had_ ethtool support via cfg80211?!
>>>> Mhh good point :) For some reason it didn't show any information, but
>>>> that might have been a mistake on my part. I'll give it another shot :)
>>> It probably won't show the driver name because we haven't pushed that
>>> through in any way?
>> Its actually showing:
>>
>> # ethtool -i wlan0
>> Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported
>>
>> which shouldn't happen, since the callback is defined. I'll
>> have a closer look at this.
> 
> What kernel are you using?

OK, that was a mistake on my part, I added the patch on net-next,
but the above test was done on net-2.6. Everything is working fine,
sorry for the confusion :)