Message-ID: <49FF2AE5.6040104@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 13:50:29 -0400
From: Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
CC: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: report operating frequency rather than current
References: <1241452330.8683.49.camel@johannes.local>
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Johannes Berg wrote:
> It's not very helpful to see, in iwconfig, the current frequency
> the card is tuned to if that frequency is currently somewhere
> across the board because we're scanning. Since we keep track of
> the frequency the user wants, display that instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/wext.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/wext.c	2009-05-04 17:41:53.000000000 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/wext.c	2009-05-04 17:42:02.000000000 +0200
> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_giwfreq(struc
>  	if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
>  		return cfg80211_ibss_wext_giwfreq(dev, info, freq, extra);
>  
> -	freq->m = local->hw.conf.channel->center_freq;
> +	freq->m = local->oper_channel->center_freq;
>  	freq->e = 6;
>  
>  	return 0;
>
>
>   
Nack.  People should see the hardware channel. If I set channel 6 and my 
wifi card is on channel 11 I need to see 11 not 6.  Doesn't make any 
sense to show some imaginary idealistic "I wish it was on channel 6" 
when the hardware is on channel 11.  Am I missing something here?

Thanks,
Rick Farina

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