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Ben Greear wrote:
> It is nice to be able to see what the driver/NIC thinks
> it is set to as well.  It is always possible that the
> stack and the NIC are out of sync for some reason.
> I'd rather those values be left in the debugfs unless
> there is a good reason for getting rid of them.

The 'wiphy' file is a remnant from the old virtual HW code.
To know the channel parameters of multiple, virtual PHYs, it
was useful. Since the operating parameters, channel type, HT
capabilites etc. are all exposed by mac80211's debugfs, we might
as well use that. Most of the other information - BSSID, RXfilter etc.
have been retained.

Sujith