From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] d80211: add support for SIOCSIWNICKN SIOCGIWNICKN Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:36:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1156944990.2725.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <44F3572E.8020506@linux.intel.com> <1156837757.3788.10.camel@ux156> <20060829114915.GB29669@tuxdriver.com> <20060829174531.GH1701@instant802.com> <20060829221553.GA31563@p15091797.pureserver.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jouni Malinen , "John W. Linville" , Johannes Berg , mabbas , netdev@vger.kernel.org, jbenc@suse.cz Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:64429 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751028AbWH3NgE (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:36:04 -0400 To: Ulrich Kunitz In-Reply-To: <20060829221553.GA31563@p15091797.pureserver.info> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 00:15 +0200, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > On 06-08-29 10:45 Jouni Malinen wrote: > > > The only reason for adding nick command would be to maintain backwards > > compatibility with some scripts. I do not use any distro configuration > > mechanisms for setting up wireless, so I do not know what is currently > > being used. I would not add these ioctls into d80211 unless someone can > > point out an existing (and widely used) mechanism that depends on these > > ioctls being available. > > The softmac-broadcom and the zd1211 driver are using it to give some > information about the driver bound to the interface. I found it > quite useful to know which driver is bound to which WLAN > interface. A readonly driver text info field would get my support. That's what the 'driver' link is for in sysfs. [dcbw@localhost devel]$ ls -al /sys/class/net/eth1/device/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 30 09:18 driver -> ../../../../bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200 Dan