From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Wifi support for iproute2 Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:53:24 -0800 Message-ID: <20070303195324.75eed906@deepthought> References: <20070304012653.GA9587@hooker.hq.c3d2.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan Maka Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:53077 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbXCDDyG (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:54:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070304012653.GA9587@hooker.hq.c3d2.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 02:26:53 +0100 Stephan Maka wrote: > Hello > > I've always felt uncomfortable by the usability of the wireless-tools > (iwconfig, iwlist), but I really love iproute2. That's why I started > to implement "ip wifi". > > My GIT tree is located at: > http://cthulhu.c3d2.de/~astro/git/iproute2.git/ > > I wonder if this has a chance to get merged in iproute2 somewhen at > all, or if this is completely inappropriate functionality for this > tool. > > Note that this my first contribution to a Linux-specific tool, *any* > hints about style and conventions demanded here are welcome. > > I'm sure not everyone will use this instead of wireless-tools, and a > few even don't want it compiled in and linked with iwlib. Should I > make this optional through a Makefile variable? > > If noone else contributes not all of wireless-tools will be > implemented, it's just too much. But basic stuff for configuring a > Wifi card is already there. > > Everyone told me dscape is near, but I hope iwlib will be ported then. Don't waste your time with a tool that uses the exist wext API. But a tool that could use cfg80211 would be useful. After the wireless summit in Jan, I put it on my "interesting ideas" list.