linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type

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Message-ID: <1366637397.8637.7.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:29:57 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Paul Stewart <pstew@...omium.org>
Cc:	Bing Zhao <bzhao@...vell.com>, linux-netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type

On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 15:14 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:
> I believe the documents for "iw" state explicitly that we shouldn't
> screen-scrape it?

Well, you specifically control your system. I'd also be happy to add
some (maybe a bit hidden) commands to print out _just_ the (numeric)
type, to aid scripting? All I'm trying to say with that though is that
you shouldn't rely on specific output formatting, particularly not with
scan results and "iw list" etc.

johannes


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