On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > > [please don't use HTML] > > On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 08:17 +0000, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: > > We don't have to break compatibility. The commandline syntax of iw is > > iw [options] command > > My suggestion would be a new option "--binary-ssid" that sets a flag > > and causes all SSID to be treated as a hex encoded binary blob: > > iw --binary-ssid dev wlan0 ibss join 0034AA 2412
Technically, I'd call this "--hex-ssid" considering the actual encoding shown. > > > and for consistency > > iw --binary-ssid dev wlan0 connect 0034AA > > > > Alternatively the option could be "--escaped-ssid" that would > > activate an escape processing for the SSID as you suggested. My > > preference is "--binary-ssid", because I'm always a little bit unsure > > what actually arrives in the program after the shell has done its own > > escape processing. > > > > > Yeah, that seems reasonable, though perhaps easier to do as > > iw dev wlan0 ibss join --binary-ssid 0034AA 2412 > > since options before the command are treated as generic iw options. > > Then again, if all places that use an SSID were to use a > "parse_ssid(argv[7])" function then the former could also be > implemented. > > 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 -- 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
