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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:18:57 +0200 From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@...adcom.com> To: "Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@...tmann.org> cc: "Bing Zhao" <bzhao@...vell.com>, "linux-netdev@...r.kernel.org" <linux-netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Paul Stewart" <pstew@...omium.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type On 04/18/2013 09:10 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Bing, > >>>> Add a "wireless/nl80211_iftype" entry in the net device sysfs >>>> file structure to indicate the mode of the wireless device so >>>> it can be discovered easily from userspace. >>> >>> I do question a little bit the usefulness for this one. >>> It would only work on netdev and on wdev devices. >> >> It's true. That's why the new sysfs entry is added in the 'wireless' placeholder. >> >> /sys/class/net/ethX/wireless/ >> >> For non-wireless dev, this won't apply. > > I have to correct myself. I meant it does NOT work for wdev. Please just go with nl80211 for this kind of information. It is the right way to handle it. Not some sysfs file. > I wanted to correct you on P2P but that would be diverging from the real message. Totally agreeing. Why add another user-space API when the nl80211 API can provide the information. Gr. AvS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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