On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 June 2008 12:38:01 Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> This patch add phy information to giwname. Currently
>> 802.11b is not treated.
>>
>> Quoting:
>> It's not useless, it's supposed to tell you about the protocol
>> capability of the device, like "IEEE 802.11b" or "IEEE 802.11abg"
>
> Well, I think it _is_ pretty useless.
> However...
>
Still many people are using wireless extension and this is probably
most convenient way to get this info.
For example 4956 comes with 3 combinations g, ag, and agn.
It's displayed upon iwconfig
>> @@ -135,7 +135,24 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_giwname(struct net_device *dev,
>> struct iw_request_info *info,
>> char *name, char *extra)
>> {
>> + struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
>> + struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
>> + u8 is_ht = 0;
>> +
>> strcpy(name, "IEEE 802.11");
>> + sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ];
>> +
>> + if (sband) {
>> + strcat(name, "a");
>> + is_ht |= sband->ht_info.ht_supported;
>> + }
>> + sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ];
>> + if (sband) {
>> + strcat(name, "g");
>> + is_ht |= sband->ht_info.ht_supported;
>
> What about b-only devices?
See the log message...(known issue). Currently you have to loop over
rates to get this info. I wasn't sure if they are any b-only NICs
under mac80211 so I didn't run to implement it.
>
>> + }
>> + if (is_ht)
>> + strcat(name, "n");
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>
>
>
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