On 06/10/2015 02:39 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? I was thinking netdevice might go away before user-space can decode the message ( I was assuming that on delete you would stop and very shortly after that delete the netdev). It's a small patch to iw and the kernel as far as I can tell...when I get it working, I'll post for consideration..if you don't want it, I won't complain :) Thanks, Ben > > johannes > -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- 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
