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Am 20.08.2019 um 14:22 schrieb Johannes Berg:
> On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 13:53 +0200, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
>
>> i was talking about a different scenario. its not about adding a
>> element, but to read it back for gui for instance. this is why i made a
>> patch which parses this special ie
>> and adds the radioname as extra element to the station table. this works
>> for ap as well of course. so iw ath0 station dump will print out the
>> radio name if available
> Oh. That's something I'd argue should just be implemented in hostapd
> then? No need to do anything in the kernel for that.
i know. thats why i never even tried to contribute it upstream. but from 
hostapd side it was more complicated than just hacking mac80211
and from stations a second mod for wpa_supplicant would be needed and 
since the dd-wrt webgui just uses nl80211 to show the station table
its more comportable and takes less code just todo it within the driver
i there is special interest in it i could of course try to clean it up 
and make a upstream patch out of it
>
> johannes
>
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