Xinming Hu <[email protected]> writes: >> You could look at >> nl80211 vendor commands, but that is also under scrutiny if common wifi >> functionality is provided by it. I am pretty sure Kalle has his ideas about >> this :-) >> > > Yes, the new utility should use nl80211 interface. > But we have lots of legacy utility based on ioctl, it will be helpful > to reduce massive work on refactoring.
That's not an excuse to implement bad interfaces. It's not really that hard to convert ioctl based tools to use nl80211 testmode command, I even have myself done that. -- Kalle Valo
