On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 11:30:40AM +0100, Iñaki Ucar wrote:
> I didn't complain. I'm not opposing, yet I'm acknowledging that it is
> not true that iwconfig is unused. It is very much used, if not just
> for printing the nice summary that the tool provides when called
> without arguments.
IIRC there are still a few WEXT-only drivers for obsolete wifi hardware
in the Linux kernel. I don't know if Fedora builds them or not, but drop
iwconfig and that hardware becomes unusable under Fedora. (prism2_usb
comes to mind)
Meanwhile, the default summary output of 'iwconfig' is all I have used
it for in many, many years. It is _very_ useful in a way that no other
tool has been. (not unlike the default output of ifconfig _still_ being
more generally useful than 'ip')
I'm sure all of the info that iwconfig provides can be extracted from
iw, but it's a lot less convenient. (Plus some of us have muscle memory
going back to when iwconfig was the new hotness...)
- Solomon
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