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

[Paul Stewart]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 15:14 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:
> > I believe the documents for "iw" state explicitly that we shouldn't
> > screen-scrape it?
>
> Well, you specifically control your system. I'd also be happy to add
> some (maybe a bit hidden) commands to print out _just_ the (numeric)
> type, to aid scripting?


No need.  I already made the necessary changes in userspace to switch
to nl80211 to retrieve the iftype.  Both Bing and I are done
proselytizing at this point. :-)

>
> All I'm trying to say with that though is that
> you shouldn't rely on specific output formatting, particularly not with
> scan results and "iw list" etc.
>
> johannes
>
>
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