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On 11 June 2015 at 11:46, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 11:45 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 11:35 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>
>> > iw also wasn't helpful:
>> > Frequencies:
>> >         * 5180 MHz [36] (30.0 dBm)
>> >         * 5200 MHz [40] (30.0 dBm)
>> >         * 5220 MHz [44] (30.0 dBm)
>> >         * 5240 MHz [48] (30.0 dBm)
>> >
>> > After some in-kernel debugging (nl80211_set_wiphy,
>> > cfg80211_chandef_usable, cfg80211_secondary_chans_ok) I finally
>> > realized it was because of:
>> > IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_80MHZ
>> >
>> > Do you have any idea how we could handle such cases nicely? To let
>> > user find out what's going on (wrong)?
>> >
>> > Should "iw" be extended to print flag names? Or should hostapd check
>> > for channels in some smarter way? Any other ideas?
>>
>> We already have the flags exposed to iw, it's just not printing them.
>> There was a patch to print them, but it wasn't complete, and the
>> submitter kinda went away. You can see the discussion here:
>>
>> http://mid.gmane.org/1425452686-28196-1-git-send-email-arnagara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Upon rereading, I think my preference would be to remove much of the
> channel list information and add a separate iw command.

Do you mean removing channel list from "iw phy X info"? Can you
suggest the new command name?

-- 
Rafał
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