Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:54507 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753464Ab1J1IEe (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:04:34 -0400 Subject: Re: cfg80211 events From: Johannes Berg To: Dan Williams Cc: Daniel Wolstenholme , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1319756980.4490.6.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (sfid-20111028_010926_967933_D78AFAE6) References: <1319756980.4490.6.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (sfid-20111028_010926_967933_D78AFAE6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:04:29 +0200 Message-ID: <1319789069.3914.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20111028_100438_877593_78B5693E) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 18:09 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > 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. Indeed. You can use testmode events for in-house testing, qualification, calibration, etc. but it will be compiled out in distro kernels. Arbitrary string events will never exist. johannes