On 11 October 2016 at 13:37, Christian Lamparter
<chunk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Previously, wifi detect simply dumped its generated wireless
> configuration out to STDOUT. A second step was needed to
> append the configuration to /etc/config/wireless (or create
> it, if it didn't exist).
>
> With this patch, The wifi detection script will now use uci
> to update the wireless configuration directly.
>
> Note: uci writes a "cfg123456" printout to stdout when it
> generates a name for the unnamed section ("add wireless wifi-iface").This rather sounds like a bug in uci, at least I would expect it to generate no output if it is invoked with "-q", neither on stdout nor stderr. > Since we currently pipe wifi detect into /etc/config/wireless, we > have to redirected this output, so it doesn't end up in the wireless > configuration file. I wonder if it wouldn't be better to keep "detect" output to stdout, and add a new command that modifies the uci config (e.g. "update" or "refresh"). People might rely/expect the current behavior, and get confused when it stops working. Jonas _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
