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From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
To: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: RFC : Wireless Netlink events
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:47:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011009184700.B16874@bougret.hpl.hp.com> (raw)

	Hi,

	Somebody asked me if it was possible to monitor wireless
configuration change on 802.11 interfaces.
	Looking into the kernel, I noticed that RTnetlink was the
prefered way to export events related to interface changes. So, I
quickly hacked some RTnetlink Wireless Events, and it basically work
the way I want.

	Now, I've got some questions :
	o Have I done it the right way ? Is there anything I forgot ?
	o Is there a way to do a reverse of SIOCGIFINDEX ? If you have
an interface index, how do you get its name ?
	o Should I put the full interface name in the event ? That
would make events larger but help query the interface when receiving
the event.
	o Any other comments ?

	My plan is to continue experimenting with this patch a few
days and collect comments, and then do a new update of Wireless
Extensions with this patch.
	Regards,

	Jean

             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-10  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-10  1:47 Jean Tourrilhes [this message]
2001-10-10  2:19 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2001-10-10 17:49 ` kuznet
2001-10-10 18:14   ` Jean Tourrilhes
2001-10-10 18:48     ` kuznet
2001-10-11  0:26       ` Jean Tourrilhes

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