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On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 13:53 +0200, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:

> i was talking about a different scenario. its not about adding a 
> element, but to read it back for gui for instance. this is why i made a 
> patch which parses this special ie
> and adds the radioname as extra element to the station table. this works 
> for ap as well of course. so iw ath0 station dump will print out the 
> radio name if available

Oh. That's something I'd argue should just be implemented in hostapd
then? No need to do anything in the kernel for that.

johannes