José Miguel Gonçalves wrote on 15/04/2021:
The following patch solves this issue for me:
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Hi and thanks for submitting a patch. While the patch is straightforward
enough, the severity of the bug is also really low, so in evaluating the
effort/reward ratio for patching iw in Debian I kind of get in a 0/0
indeterminate form. :-)
My general package maintenance philosophy on patches is "don't diverge
from upstream unless necessary". In other words I think the patch
belongs to upstream iw, and I don't see why it shouldn't get accepted
there. Once in upstream git I'll happily cherry-pick it in the Debian
package, only to drop it with the first release that ships it.
Fixing this upstream will also benefit all the iw users, and not only
Debian and derivatives.
Would you consider submitting your patch upstream?
Documentation on how to do it is available at [1].
Thanks!
Paride
[1]
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
