Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Add entry for nl80211 interface type

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Wed Apr 17 2013 - 18:54:42 EST


Hi Bing,

> 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.

I do question a little bit the usefulness for this one. It would only work on netdev and on wdev devices. Using nl80211 to discover this information seems a lot better approach.

Regards

Marcel

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