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On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 13:47 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> The parsing of nl80211 seems to fail. If I find some time, I try to
> >> look at it.
> >
> > Oh, that's not surprising, it's over two years old and after I started
> > writing the C tool (iw) I never maintained the comments in nl80211.h
> > that this tried to parse.
> 
> Ok, good to know. What do you think if I remove the parsing of
> nl80211.h and instead add the nl80211 commands manually as python
> code? Sure, it's monkey code but easier to maintain IMHO.

Yeah, I agree.

> Or have some intermediate language, maybe. Any ideas?

I guess we could use sparse to output introspection information for
nl80211.h instead, but is it worth it?

johannes

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