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Re: RFC: mac80211: add ethtool support

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Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:34 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:18 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>>>     mac80211: add ethtool support
>>>>     
>>>>     Add ethtool support and add a drvname field to struct ieee80211_ops, which is
>>>>     used for ethtool driver information. This is useful with multiple different
>>>>     wireless cards to find out which device is using which driver.
>>>>     
>>> I thought we _had_ ethtool support via cfg80211?!
>> Mhh good point :) For some reason it didn't show any information, but
>> that might have been a mistake on my part. I'll give it another shot :)
> 
> It probably won't show the driver name because we haven't pushed that
> through in any way?

Its actually showing:

# ethtool -i wlan0
Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported

which shouldn't happen, since the callback is defined. I'll
have a closer look at this.
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