Subject: Re: cfg80211 events
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Wolstenholme <daniel@wolstenholme.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:09:38 -0500
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On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 15:27 -0700, Daniel Wolstenholme wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working with the Broadcom brcmfmac driver, and I'm attempting to improve
> event reporting, but I'm finding there's not that much documentation on
> wireless events.  One big problem I'm having is that I'm using the cfg80211
> interface, but when I run "iw event -t -f", I don't see the events showing
> up.  Another question I have is: is there a way to send events with
> arbitrary strings from the driver through to userspace?

I'd be careful of that; we don't want a repeat of IWPRIV events, we'd
rather have stuff standardized.  Unless you're doing this for testing,
of course.

Dan

> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Dan
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