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Re: [PATCH] iw: Use ifname if available, print new/del/stop events.

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On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 06:45 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> On 06/17/2015 02:14 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 18:17 -0400, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > If the kernel sends the IFNAME in the netlink message, then
> > > use it to save the call to map ifindex to name (and
> > > potentially fix races, especially when kernel is
> > > busy deleting an interface.
> > 
> > Please split the "print new/del/stop events" part into a separate 
> > patch
> > - I can apply that now.
> 
> Some existing events (interface-delete, I think) already have the 
> ifname, by the way..so the iw patch
> is useful without any kernel changes.
> 

Fair enough. Still, splitting the patch would make sense I think.

johannes
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