Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966982Ab3DQWyi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:54:38 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:47367 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966900Ab3DQWyg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:54:36 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type From: Marcel Holtmann In-Reply-To: <1366236369-543-1-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:54:29 -0700 Cc: , , , Paul Stewart Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <0156C538-4175-47E9-B667-C2127CBEF3EB@holtmann.org> References: <1366236369-543-1-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> To: Bing Zhao X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 17 Hi Bing, > Add a "wireless/nl80211_iftype" entry in the net device sysfs > file structure to indicate the mode of the wireless device so > it can be discovered easily from userspace. I do question a little bit the usefulness for this one. It would only work on netdev and on wdev devices. Using nl80211 to discover this information seems a lot better approach. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/