Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753761Ab3DVNaL (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:30:11 -0400 Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:45805 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753377Ab3DVNaK (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:30:10 -0400 Message-ID: <1366637397.8637.7.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type From: Johannes Berg To: Paul Stewart Cc: Bing Zhao , linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless , LKML Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:29:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20130418_001419_120365_42D87327) References: <1366236369-543-1-git-send-email-bzhao@marvell.com> <1366236590.8217.64.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130418_001419_120365_42D87327) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.3-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 716 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 15:14 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote: > I believe the documents for "iw" state explicitly that we shouldn't > screen-scrape it? Well, you specifically control your system. I'd also be happy to add some (maybe a bit hidden) commands to print out _just_ the (numeric) type, to aid scripting? All I'm trying to say with that though is that you shouldn't rely on specific output formatting, particularly not with scan results and "iw list" etc. johannes -- 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/