From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Dad <ccmcphe@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: mac80211 question
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:21:33 +0200
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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On Tuesday 15 April 2008 15:13:27 Dad wrote:
> Our tech support people use it - to distinguish which wireless is for 
> which work group.
> You see, we have servers with multiple wireless's and depending on the 
> work group and
> location, the nickname aids the tech support people to identify what 
> wireless a person is
> using. That is the only reason why we use it. Right now I have created 
> code for those IOCTL's,
> so if mac80211 doesn't have it, we can just implement it on our servers.

Why don't you do that wireless-interface to whatever mapping in userspace?


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Greetings Michael.