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

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Stewart
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > 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

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

2013-04-18 Thread Paul Stewart
The original reason to request this change was simple: to figure out what type of interface we are looking at, since now some wireless drivers can simultaneously create managed, p2p and ap interfaces. Knowing that, from a simple front-end (let's even say a shell script) we can decide what arguments