From: Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>
Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jbenc@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] d80211: indicate if unassociate/radio off status
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:28:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F4BF9E.4040309@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060829175544.GI1701@instant802.com>
Jouni Malinen wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:17:34PM -0700, Michael Wu wrote:
>
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>>It would be helpful if you inlined your patches instead of attaching them next
>>time.
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>Agreed.
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>>I'm not comfortable with using the name for this purpose.
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>
>And agreed. wireless.h has this to say about SIOCGIWNAME:
>
>#define SIOCGIWNAME 0x8B01 /* get name == wireless protocol */
>/* SIOCGIWNAME is used to verify the presence of Wireless Extensions.
> * Common values : "IEEE 802.11-DS", "IEEE 802.11-FH", "IEEE 802.11b"...
> * Don't put the name of your driver there, it's useless. */
>
>
>The proposed use here is against this and should not be applied.
>SIOCGIWAP can be used to indicate association status and SIOCGIWTXPOW
>can be used to indicate whether TX is powered which is quite close to
>radio off indication.
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>
to associated to a network i do the following
#iwconfig wlan0 essid {some name} channel X ap {bssid of the AP}
after I issues this command SIOCGIWAP will always report the bssid no
matter what the status of our link.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 20:49 [PATCH 5/7] d80211: indicate if unassociate/radio off status mabbas
2006-08-28 21:17 ` Michael Wu
2006-08-29 17:55 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-08-29 22:28 ` Mohamed Abbas [this message]
2006-08-29 22:50 ` Michael Wu
2006-08-29 23:01 ` Michael Wu
2006-08-30 13:41 ` Dan Williams
2006-08-30 17:22 ` Michael Wu
2006-09-21 17:01 ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-21 19:03 ` Dan Williams
2006-09-21 19:47 ` mabbas
2006-09-21 20:30 ` Dan Williams
2006-09-21 20:39 ` mabbas
2006-09-21 22:38 ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-21 22:55 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-22 0:42 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-09-22 0:57 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-22 22:29 ` [d80211 patch 1/1] setting bss freq and phymode using rx_status mabbas
2006-09-25 16:16 ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-25 17:15 ` mabbas
2006-09-27 15:34 ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-22 8:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] d80211: indicate if unassociate/radio off status Johannes Berg
2006-09-22 14:05 ` Dan Williams
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