From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: Print wiphy name in sysfs.
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:04:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB351B2.4070803@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286819927.3634.79.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On 10/11/2010 10:58 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 10:28 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>
>> The index cannot be used to reliably reconstruct a phy
>> name, so explicitly add the phy name to sysfs so that scripts
>> can figure out the parent phy device for a particular
>> wireless interface.
>
> But you still need to know the name to get at this to start with, so
> what's the point?
>
> cat /sys/class/ieee80211/<phyname>/name
> <phyname>
>
> or
>
> cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/0000:03:00.0/ssb0:0/ieee80211/phy0/name
> phy0
I use this to determine the phy device for a particular network device:
[root@dx-2u-ath5k lanforge]# cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/phy80211/name
wiphy0
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-11 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 17:28 [PATCH] wireless: Print wiphy name in sysfs greearb
2010-10-11 17:58 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-11 18:04 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2010-10-11 18:10 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-11 18:22 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-11 18:42 ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-11 18:50 ` Ben Greear
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