On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 18:09 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 15:27 -0700, Daniel Wolstenholme wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm working with the Broadcom brcmfmac driver, and I'm attempting to improve > > event reporting, but I'm finding there's not that much documentation on > > wireless events. One big problem I'm having is that I'm using the cfg80211 > > interface, but when I run "iw event -t -f", I don't see the events showing > > up. Another question I have is: is there a way to send events with > > arbitrary strings from the driver through to userspace? > > I'd be careful of that; we don't want a repeat of IWPRIV events, we'd > rather have stuff standardized. Unless you're doing this for testing, > of course. Indeed. You can use testmode events for in-house testing, qualification, calibration, etc. but it will be compiled out in distro kernels. Arbitrary string events will never exist. 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
