Re: Add netdev name to NL80211_CMD_STOP_AP event?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 06/10/2015 02:39 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> While trying to make 'iw' able to print out something useful for
>> the 'stop_ap' event, I notice there is not really any human friendly
>> info in the message (just phy id (which may not match phy name), ifindex, and some other
>> wiphy related numeric ID.
>>
>> Any reason not to add the netdev name (NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME) to this and
>> related messages?
> 
> We're not really adding that *anywhere*, and you can trivially look it
> up based on the ifindex, so why bother?

I was thinking netdevice might go away before user-space can decode the
message ( I was assuming that on delete you would stop and very shortly
after that delete the netdev).

It's a small patch to iw and the kernel as far as I can tell...when I
get it working, I'll post for consideration..if you don't want it,
I won't complain :)

Thanks,
Ben

> 
> johannes
> 


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