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Re: Any reason AID is not in the NL80211_STA_INFO enumeration?

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On Tue, 2020-03-03 at 06:57 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> Although it is a bit weird, I was thinking to always return the AID as part of the station
> dump, and for station netdevs, use the local netdev AID, and for APs, use the remote station AID.
> 
> That seems a bit cleaner to me than having two separate ways to get the AID for stations and APs,
> but I can do two separate ways if you prefer that.

I don't really agree that it's cleaner - by definition, the data in a
station is data about that station, not data about "self".

We may not have a great way right now to show the latter ('data about
self')? But I still don't think we should mix it.

johannes




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