On 06-08-29 10:45 Jouni Malinen wrote: > The only reason for adding nick command would be to maintain backwards > compatibility with some scripts. I do not use any distro configuration > mechanisms for setting up wireless, so I do not know what is currently > being used. I would not add these ioctls into d80211 unless someone can > point out an existing (and widely used) mechanism that depends on these > ioctls being available.
The softmac-broadcom and the zd1211 driver are using it to give some information about the driver bound to the interface. I found it quite useful to know which driver is bound to which WLAN interface. A readonly driver text info field would get my support. -- Uli Kunitz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
