On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 00:23 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > have we considered also exposing the mode of this netdev. So for > example sta,ap,p2p-go,p2p-client etc. If we can send dynamic updates > via RTNL, we could easily tell the networking management system what > type of wireless device we have here. I am thinking about it like > "wlan/p2p-go" etc. Or should this be better kept strictly to "wlan".
I certainly haven't considered this API at all :) That said, I'm not sure where it would be used, so I don't really know. > And I am not sure RTNL would be capable of changing this kind strings > at runtime anyway. Given the API (fixed constant string in a const struct that the netdev points to) it seems that it doesn't really support that, unless we change the internals to have a function to return the string or keep lots of copies of the struct and reassign them - neither seems very appealing. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
