alternatives to screenscraping iw?

[Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Johannes,

We're trying to move away from ifconfig/iwconfig and switch to use 
ip/iw on our embedded systems. It works good, but we can't really adapt 
our current tools (mostly Python wrappers). iw -h specially says not to 
screenscrape, but we don't really have an alternative, do we?

Would it be possible to split iw into a shared library + binary? Then 
it'd be at least possible to create wrappers. Another idea would be to 
have a mode for iw to output json, like 'ip' does.

Cheers,
-Paul