From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 14:16:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211199368.6252.19.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211117795.686.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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> Instead of testing for wireless/, best thing would probably be to call
> SIOCGIWRANGE on the device and if it returns EOPNOTSUP then it's not
> wireless. Some drivers may have to load firmware to figure out
> supported rates and encryption capabilities, but to be honest, NM does
> this to detect wireless devices and I haven't run into any issues in 4
> years using it. If there are issues with drivers, then we need to fix
> the driver too.
I was about to propose calling SIOCGIWNAME since that is what
wireless-tools do and that linux/wireless.h indicates.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-19 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-17 12:12 [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them Johannes Berg
2008-05-17 12:16 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-17 13:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-17 13:54 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-17 14:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-17 14:42 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-18 13:36 ` Dan Williams
2008-05-19 12:16 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-05-19 15:24 ` Dan Williams
2008-05-19 15:39 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-19 15:53 ` Dan Williams
2008-05-19 17:03 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-05-19 17:01 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-05-20 17:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-20 17:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-21 21:03 ` John W. Linville
2008-05-21 21:37 ` Johannes Berg
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