On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 11:45 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 11:35 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 
> > iw also wasn't helpful:
> > Frequencies:
> >         * 5180 MHz [36] (30.0 dBm)
> >         * 5200 MHz [40] (30.0 dBm)
> >         * 5220 MHz [44] (30.0 dBm)
> >         * 5240 MHz [48] (30.0 dBm)
> > 
> > After some in-kernel debugging (nl80211_set_wiphy,
> > cfg80211_chandef_usable, cfg80211_secondary_chans_ok) I finally
> > realized it was because of:
> > IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_80MHZ
> > 
> > Do you have any idea how we could handle such cases nicely? To let
> > user find out what's going on (wrong)?
> > 
> > Should "iw" be extended to print flag names? Or should hostapd check
> > for channels in some smarter way? Any other ideas?
> 
> We already have the flags exposed to iw, it's just not printing them.
> There was a patch to print them, but it wasn't complete, and the
> submitter kinda went away. You can see the discussion here:
> 
> http://mid.gmane.org/1425452686-28196-1-git-send-email-arnag...@qti.qualcomm.com

Upon rereading, I think my preference would be to remove much of the
channel list information and add a separate iw command.

johannes

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