On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 15:14 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote: > > I believe the documents for "iw" state explicitly that we shouldn't > > screen-scrape it? > > Well, you specifically control your system. I'd also be happy to add > some (maybe a bit hidden) commands to print out _just_ the (numeric) > type, to aid scripting? No need. I already made the necessary changes in userspace to switch to nl80211 to retrieve the iftype. Both Bing and I are done proselytizing at this point. :-) > > All I'm trying to say with that though is that > you shouldn't rely on specific output formatting, particularly not with > scan results and "iw list" etc. > > johannes > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
