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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:14:35 +0200
From: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
CC: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>, linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type
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On 18/04/2013 00:09, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 15:06 -0700, Bing Zhao wrote:
>> Add a "wireless/nl80211_iftype" entry in the net device sysfs
>> file structure to indicate the mode of the wireless device so
>> it can be discovered easily from userspace.
> 
> What's wrong with "iw dev", i.e. netlink/nl80211?

"Do NOT screenscrape this tool, we don't consider its output stable."

So if you are in a shell script, you're basically screwed.