[please don't use HTML] On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 08:17 +0000, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: > We don't have to break compatibility. The commandline syntax of iw is > iw [options] command > My suggestion would be a new option "--binary-ssid" that sets a flag > and causes all SSID to be treated as a hex encoded binary blob: > iw --binary-ssid dev wlan0 ibss join 0034AA 2412 > and for consistency > iw --binary-ssid dev wlan0 connect 0034AA > > Alternatively the option could be "--escaped-ssid" that would > activate an escape processing for the SSID as you suggested. My > preference is "--binary-ssid", because I'm always a little bit unsure > what actually arrives in the program after the shell has done its own > escape processing. > Yeah, that seems reasonable, though perhaps easier to do as iw dev wlan0 ibss join --binary-ssid 0034AA 2412 since options before the command are treated as generic iw options. Then again, if all places that use an SSID were to use a "parse_ssid(argv[7])" function then the former could also be implemented. johannes -- 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
