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Re: mac80211 ethtool support

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> > Yeah, we can do this also. But the users want a standard way, especially
> > when there is already such kernel interface and user space tools ready
> > there. Any chance mac80211 supports ethtool or something similar?
> 
> You could write a patch.
> Add a callback to mac80211 that mac80211 uses to register the eeprom
> ethtool interface.

NACK. Which virtual interface should get this? wmaster sounds like the
"obvious" candidate but we want to get rid of it ASAP. And the others
ones are pretty wrong because you can, technically, have a wiphy without
any virtual interfaces on it.

Maybe it should live in cfg80211's sysfs...

johannes

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