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Re: Userspace tools: Roadmap?

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On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 09:52 +0200, David Shwatrz wrote:

> >>   For instance, how do I command a
> >> channel change from userspace?  iw doesn't have that.  >Should it?
> 
> >Yes, it should, and nl80211 even supports it, but iw itself >doesn't yet.
> >That's fairly easy to fix, too, but then iw won't support actually
> >telling mac80211 to scan and associate etc.
> 
> Can you please explain why addition of channel changing in iw will
> cause iw to not be able to support scanning and association ?
> (wireless-tools has all this options).

Eh, no, I worded that wrongly, I meant that it currently _doesn't_
support scan/associate. And nor does nl80211, so that's not easy to fix
(well, scan is WIP)

johannes

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