On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 01:16 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote: > The current mechanism to detect hot-plug / unplug of wireless devices > is > somewhat arcane. One has to listen to NEW_WIPHY/DEL_WIPHY events > over > nl80211 as well as RTM_NEWLINK / RTM_DELLINK events over rtnl, then > somehow find a correlation between these events. This involves > userspace > sending GET_INTERFACE or GET_WIPHY commands to the kernel, which > incurs > additional roundtrips. > > This patch series proposes that NEW_INTERFACE and DEL_INTERFACE > events are > always emitted, regardless of whether a netdev was added/removed by > the > driver or explicitly via NEW_INTERFACE/DEL_INTERFACE commands. > > v2: Squished patches 2+3, 4+5. DEL_INTERFACE event notification is > now > sent inside cfg80211_unregister_wdev instead of > nl80211_del_interface. > Looks fine to me, care to resend as [PATCH]? 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
