Thanks for posting about this effort. I would be very interested in helping out on development. I will stay up-to-date on things via your github page. Otherwise, please continue to keep the list updated on your progress. Will On 07/12/2013 09:32 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 07/12/13 10:02, Johannes Berg wrote: >> Yep, I'd totally be interested. Not that I don't have enough things on >> my plate already ;-) >> >> On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 22:57 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: >>> A common say in Linux arena is "when you have an itch, just scratch it". >> >> :-) >> >>> My itch is that tools like ifconfig and iw are great, but in an >>> automated test environment it kind of sucks to parse output, which is >>> confirmed by blurb from iw: "Do NOT screenscrape this tool, we don't >>> consider its output stable.". >> >> Heh, yeah ... >> >>> Ever since my first contact with Python I tend to favor it over other >>> scripting alternatives so I decided to scratch my itch with that and >>> another old acquaintance called SWIG. With those I went to create >>> py80211. A first attempt was to have SWIG create a wrapper API directly >>> exposing the libnl-3 API, but that did not feel comfortable in a >>> scripting environment. So the level of abstraction is a bit higher. It >>> is just in a kick-off state (eg. can only send u32 attributes), but I >>> decided to push it to github anyway. >> >> Another approach might be exposing the libnl APIs and then build a >> higher-level library in python. Have you considered that? That might >> make it useful to other users of netlink as well, while keeping a 'nice' >> nl80211 API? > > I am still at that fork in the road and not sure about it. The libnl > project itself already has libnl stuff exposed in a python lib being the > core api and route. So I could go and add genl support to that and build > the high-level python library from there. > > Regards, > Arend > > -- > 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 > -- 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
