From: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>,
linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:14:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <516F8F4B.1000504@lri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366236590.8217.64.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
On 18/04/2013 00:09, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 15:06 -0700, Bing Zhao wrote:
>> Add a "wireless/nl80211_iftype" entry in the net device sysfs
>> file structure to indicate the mode of the wireless device so
>> it can be discovered easily from userspace.
>
> What's wrong with "iw dev", i.e. netlink/nl80211?
"Do NOT screenscrape this tool, we don't consider its output stable."
So if you are in a shell script, you're basically screwed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-18 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-17 22:06 [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type Bing Zhao
2013-04-17 22:09 ` Johannes Berg
2013-04-18 6:14 ` Nicolas Cavallari [this message]
2013-04-18 6:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 7:03 ` Paul Stewart
2013-04-18 15:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] ` <CAMcMvsjh4y=84hM+dCcFvb1xxSq5c3HqTBg6VyaCZkh5s=E5yA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-22 13:29 ` Johannes Berg
2013-04-22 13:55 ` Paul Stewart
2013-04-17 22:54 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 19:03 ` Bing Zhao
2013-04-18 19:10 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-04-18 19:18 ` Arend van Spriel
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