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Re: Add netdev name to NL80211_CMD_STOP_AP event?

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On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> While trying to make 'iw' able to print out something useful for
> the 'stop_ap' event, I notice there is not really any human friendly
> info in the message (just phy id (which may not match phy name), ifindex, and some other
> wiphy related numeric ID.
> 
> Any reason not to add the netdev name (NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME) to this and
> related messages?

We're not really adding that *anywhere*, and you can trivially look it
up based on the ifindex, so why bother?

johannes

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