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Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add a callback for querying the operating frequency and export it through nl80211

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On 2010-01-17 9:14 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 21:12 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> 
>> > If you have an IBSS or managed mode then you know from the BSS info
>> what
>> > channel you should be on... APs are completely userspace controlled
>> > anyway, so are monitors.
>> I was thinking about scanning, but then again, that's not handled by
>> my patch series either. I'll simplify it and make it per-netdev.
> 
> But scanning isn't really interesting, it might be firmware controlled
> or whatever. What do you need the whole thing for? Why export the
> channel at all?
I want to be able to have some status info without having to go through
hostapd or wpa_supplicant to get it. Currently the channel is exported
by wext, but not nl80211, so I want to fix that.

- Felix
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