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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add mcast event when hwsim radios are created and removed

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On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 13:55 +0200, Jukka Rissanen wrote:

> > That's not particularly hard to figure out, for example by looking at
> > sysfs.
> > 
> > Is this really so time-constrained/important/... that you can't do that?
> 
> It does not seem very practical to dig this information from sysfs as
> the same information can be easily get via netlink as this patch shows.

Well, that's a slippery slope. I'd consider it more practical to use
existing APIs instead of (gratuitously) inventing new ones. It'll even
work on older kernels as an added benefit.

johannes

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