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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: python nl80211 code
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:47:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws166hlz.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259666699.32171.72.camel@johannes.local> (Johannes Berg's message of "Tue\, 01 Dec 2009 12\:24\:59 +0100")

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

>> The parsing of nl80211 seems to fail. If I find some time, I try to
>> look at it.
>
> Oh, that's not surprising, it's over two years old and after I started
> writing the C tool (iw) I never maintained the comments in nl80211.h
> that this tried to parse.

Ok, good to know. What do you think if I remove the parsing of
nl80211.h and instead add the nl80211 commands manually as python
code? Sure, it's monkey code but easier to maintain IMHO.

Or have some intermediate language, maybe. Any ideas?

-- 
Kalle Valo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01  8:53 python nl80211 code Kalle Valo
2009-12-01  9:23 ` Johannes Berg
2009-12-01 10:31   ` Kalle Valo
2009-12-01 11:24     ` Johannes Berg
2009-12-01 11:47       ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2009-12-01 11:50         ` Johannes Berg
2009-12-01 11:52           ` Kalle Valo

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