From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iw: Use ifname if available, print new/del/stop events.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 06:45:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55817A0F.2000207@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434532497.1884.27.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 06/17/2015 02:14 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 18:17 -0400, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> If the kernel sends the IFNAME in the netlink message, then
>> use it to save the call to map ifindex to name (and
>> potentially fix races, especially when kernel is
>> busy deleting an interface.
>
> Please split the "print new/del/stop events" part into a separate patch
> - I can apply that now.
Some existing events (interface-delete, I think) already have the ifname, by the way..so the iw patch
is useful without any kernel changes.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-17 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 22:17 [PATCH] iw: Use ifname if available, print new/del/stop events greearb
2015-06-17 9:14 ` Johannes Berg
2015-06-17 13:45 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2015-07-17 8:55 ` Johannes Berg
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