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Re: [PATCH 07/13] cfg80211: only export disable flag on channel disablement

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On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 07:30 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:48:36AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 13:09 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > 
> > > I can put a note, if that helps, or are you strongly opposed to this? :)
> > > Just an itch to scratch really, have you seen the output of iwlist on
> > > disabled channels? It can get long on radar/no-ibss channels. We can also
> > > handle this in userspace but seems pointles if the channels is disabled.
> > 
> > Well, come to think of it, at least for programmers it might be
> > confusing when they know they've put some flag into orig_flags, and then
> > it disappears? I'm not really _strongly_ opposed to this, but I really
> > just don't see the point :)
> 
> Have you bothered calling iw list with a long list of crap on the channels?

Heh, no, but I rarely call iw at all. I just added a patch to iw to
suppress it instead, I think that's more appropriate.

johannes

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