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Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results

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On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 00:12 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > In ieee80211, the output of scan results lists channels rather than
> > frequencies; however, NetworkManager needs frequency. This patch
> > changes the output from channel to frequency.
> 
> The driver can report both, and I think it should.  This would make the iwlist
> output a bit longer, but kernel drivers shouldn't be written to make userspace
> program generate pretty output.

I'm trying to remember why NM cares about frequency, and I think it's
for ad-hoc mode; but wpa_supplicant didn't historically support a
"channel" configuration parameter and so you can't create adhoc networks
with NM right now anyway...  What's the failure mode?

Dan

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