From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mabbas Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] d80211: indicate if unassociate/radio off status Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:47:40 -0700 Message-ID: <4512EC5C.1030807@linux.intel.com> References: <44F356DF.9000000@linux.intel.com> <20060921190126.4d884c44@logostar.upir.cz> <1158865436.27546.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Benc , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mga05.intel.com ([192.55.52.89]:52098 "EHLO fmsmga101.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751482AbWIUTrh (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:47:37 -0400 To: Dan Williams In-Reply-To: <1158865436.27546.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 19:01 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:49:35 -0700, mabbas wrote: >> >>> This patch indicate unassociated and radio off status >>> in name field >>> >> NAK. >> >> Fix SIOCGIWAP handler instead. >> > > Right; the _one_ place anyone should ever have to check for unassociated > status is SIOCGIWAP. That's it. Lets not put stuff in two different > places. If it's all 0s, all 4s (stupid prism) or all Fs (i forget who > does that), it's invalid and you're not connected. > > About the worst thing we can start doing is having to parse arbitrary > strings to find out driver/card status. That's the same problem with > "" which hope DIES DIES DIES with d80211. If the AP is hidden, > then it has a _blank_ SSID, not hacked to "". > > For radio off, that may be a legitimate thing that's not covered in WE > yet. But isn't that the domain of SIOCGIWPOWER, or is that just used to > set PM modes and not return current status? [1] > > Dan > > [1] which would seem like an oversight to correct in nl80211 > > SIOCGIWPOWER is for power save mode it has nothing to do with radio off, we can indicate radio off in txpower field i guess. I have question regarding SIOCGIWAP. if I do #iwconfig ap 00:13:23:87:150:150, wont iwconfig always show 00:13:23:87:150:150 for SIOCGIWAP regardless if we associated or not? can we display blank in this case to indicate not connected? Mohamed >> Jiri >> >>