On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 00:15 +0200, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > 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.
That's what the 'driver' link is for in sysfs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] devel]$ ls -al /sys/class/net/eth1/device/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 30 09:18 driver -> ../../../../bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200 Dan - 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
