From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]:40838 "EHLO mail2.candelatech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752015AbbFJVwz (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:52:55 -0400 Message-ID: <5578B1B6.8040006@candelatech.com> (sfid-20150610_235258_187085_AFBF2490) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:52:54 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Add netdev name to NL80211_CMD_STOP_AP event? References: <5578AA11.2020505@candelatech.com> (sfid-20150610_232022_833916_9A1896A2) <1433972365.3145.18.camel@sipsolutions.net> <5578AF90.5030609@candelatech.com> <1433972952.3145.19.camel@sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1433972952.3145.19.camel@sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/10/2015 02:49 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 14:43 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > >> 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). > > Yeah, but in that case ... does it matter? :) iw will probably print stack garbage, but that would be fixed easily enough w/out the kernel patch. >> It's a small patch to iw and the kernel as far as I can tell... > > It's small *now*, but if we add it to all events it'll end up pretty > big... I'll stick with just the stop_ap cmd for now. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com