On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:13:08PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:50:15 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 14:06 +0200, Stefanik Gábor wrote:
> > > My recommendations: nl80211 or nlconfig, since it controls NL80211.
> > > Also,  the syntax  "nl80211 --add --master=wmaster0 --mode=monitor
> > > mon0" (or, using short parameters, "nlconfig -a -m=monitor -p=wmaster0
> > > mon0" - "-a" for an alias of "--add", "-m" for "--mode" and "-p" for
> > > "--master") would be much better than the current one. (This is pretty
> > > similar to kexec's or aircrack-ng's syntax, and is used by many other
> > > commands.)
> > 
> > I accept patches but I'd *much* rather have a syntax like the "ip" tool.
> 
> Yeah, me too. But the current iw syntax is just really confusing. :)
> I guess there's room for improving it.
> But the tool name "iw" is just fine, IMO. Less to type = better.

Could we make it reference the wiphy instead of the wmaster?  I still
hold-out some hope of making wmaster go away eventually...

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John W. Linville
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