From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:37864 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753807AbZAOJgQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:36:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Userspace tools: Roadmap? From: Johannes Berg To: David Shwatrz Cc: Dan E , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <31436f4a0901142352u2b60f9e6n5940835f13658b37@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090115_085234_636643_75C8A3D1) References: <1228692546.8826.1288759933@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1228723993.22164.65.camel@johannes.berg> <31436f4a0901142352u2b60f9e6n5940835f13658b37@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090115_085234_636643_75C8A3D1) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JDFkUjkTZHp8MRVSXyhU" Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:35:38 +0100 Message-Id: <1232012138.4007.1.camel@johannes> (sfid-20090115_103622_161494_DBDCF2C7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-JDFkUjkTZHp8MRVSXyhU Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 09:52 +0200, David Shwatrz wrote: > >> For instance, how do I command a > >> channel change from userspace? iw doesn't have that. >Should it? >=20 > >Yes, it should, and nl80211 even supports it, but iw itself >doesn't yet= . > >That's fairly easy to fix, too, but then iw won't support actually > >telling mac80211 to scan and associate etc. >=20 > Can you please explain why addition of channel changing in iw will > cause iw to not be able to support scanning and association ? > (wireless-tools has all this options). Eh, no, I worded that wrongly, I meant that it currently _doesn't_ support scan/associate. And nor does nl80211, so that's not easy to fix (well, scan is WIP) johannes --=-JDFkUjkTZHp8MRVSXyhU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJbwNoAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYks4QAKOT4hwq0e2AetgRsec3VI3K tpa3XkQrmg9wQWIHlcFiW2LVtBiopVrjaCnuumwe1P+zvXCEhuX0k23sQSqic/De d2cQavmYMKZlv97GLrNa7dsjpF2RZVOFcWQv/YjXXcKQblMv42GWsW8YS6vXiKYS 1J+BI45QkrKIa161umYMSgP5L7m9jDRgKQy2h/vzVrTKOgq5bgE4DzKdtgpN6KFP qYV3293lJm1J0Z6gDKhX1yM9E/UMtETve5F3dFaxVy9f8rjlPvMP8mDTh4kIyVQW 2zSelWaP2sgCWUxrUTwT89mmZcts/CkNWzs6X3mwP0hBh4pTbM2Wms+yHsP1+tP+ 5LPZpczrzeccNdr3JLWgPni/ezhBOQN/d2TLri+xnV5BH9oeg7IqHO21GU9JSC5V KRGPQd/FZFyJnZWC5tCrDoFMLba+2yrxODwwrteALVSJCkdEZelCy9pUMPShC8oN 0nxqwA4tUzLQU8hRbZJ+pJTSuCFwhkMTx8s4FVu99bOT/aldMU56JK/3RNQDqeu8 7aZ74EcIuEzIyt+q6f45K/LyV3JZj8Pzzmqg0RPASdjjFeei7I29TpCNnihlfAsi ay2YNRH/+nOyxKjNDFLhYWF4pOXbbMHyuNgd5sPb2enRdkDfVuTLO8mFizFxHEZa dAa9sgyjbgY5ECgRYwWn =W5Tk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JDFkUjkTZHp8MRVSXyhU--