From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Any reason AID is not in the NL80211_STA_INFO enumeration?
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 15:59:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d6760e94097b3c11c7244076befeb77066d02c8.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07235202-4134-f01a-5083-4c56c1ed604a@candelatech.com>
On Tue, 2020-03-03 at 06:57 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
>
> Although it is a bit weird, I was thinking to always return the AID as part of the station
> dump, and for station netdevs, use the local netdev AID, and for APs, use the remote station AID.
>
> That seems a bit cleaner to me than having two separate ways to get the AID for stations and APs,
> but I can do two separate ways if you prefer that.
I don't really agree that it's cleaner - by definition, the data in a
station is data about that station, not data about "self".
We may not have a great way right now to show the latter ('data about
self')? But I still don't think we should mix it.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-03 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-18 1:11 Any reason AID is not in the NL80211_STA_INFO enumeration? Ben Greear
2020-02-28 10:06 ` Johannes Berg
2020-02-28 15:26 ` Ben Greear
2020-03-03 14:08 ` Johannes Berg
2020-03-03 14:57 ` Ben Greear
2020-03-03 14:59 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2020-03-03 15:02 ` Ben Greear
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