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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:
>
>  
>
>>It would be helpful if you inlined your patches instead of attaching them next 
>>time.
>>    
>>
>
>Agreed.
>
>  
>
>>I'm not comfortable with using the name for this purpose.
>>    
>>
>
>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.
>
>  
>
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.

  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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