On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:22 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > > basename $(readlink /sys/class/net/wlan0/phy80211) > > It looks like that could work, but it seems a lot easier to probe > network devices via normal manner, and then check if I can just > open and read /sys/class/net/[dev-name]/phy80211/name > > I can do that easily from within a C/C++ program, where as > doing system calls and grabbing standard output is more of > a pain (and more overhead). > > But, if you don't want to add my patch, it's not a big deal. I don't really mind, it just didn't seem necessary. FWIW, readlink(2) is also a system call that your C program could use, but if you want the patch instead I guess that's fine. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
