[Prism54-devel] SIOCGIWNAME usage

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:17:52PM +0100, Jens Maurer wrote:
> 
> Shawn Anderson wrote:
> >#define SIOCGIWNAME     0x8B01          /* get name == wireless protocol */
> >/* SIOCGIWNAME is used to verify the presence of Wireless Extensions.
> > * Common values : "IEEE 802.11-DS", "IEEE 802.11-FH", "IEEE 802.11b"...
> > * Don't put the name of your driver there, it's useless. */
> >
> >I notice the prism54 driver assosiates the card model to this ioctl, I
> >wonder if its better to assign the card model to SIOCSIWNICKN /
> >SIOCGIWNICKN instead... and make SIOCGIWNAME return "IEEE 802.11g" or
> >similar.
 
> That sounds reasonable.

while I'm tempted to agree with the SIOCGIWNAME part... (which
actually just needs returns some dummy string - so there's absolutely
no requirement of returning anything useful...)...

I don't see, why SIOCGIWNICKN should return the model name (I
actually don't understand the meaning of this attribute, but my
intuition tells me, that using the model name as a nickname seems
strange...)

regards,
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