From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver•com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions•net>
Cc: mabbas <mabbas@linux•intel.com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org, jbenc@suse•cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] d80211: add support for SIOCSIWNICKN SIOCGIWNICKN
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:49:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060829114915.GB29669@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156837757.3788.10.camel@ux156>
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:49:17AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I intend to kill the nick command with nl80211 since it seems to be
> useless. Any objections?
I can't defend it myself, but I have heard of people using it.
I think some of the distro's init scripts might set it as well?
Can anyone defend the practice of setting a nickname for a wireless
device?
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver•com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 20:50 [PATCH 4/7] d80211: add support for SIOCSIWNICKN SIOCGIWNICKN mabbas
2006-08-29 7:49 ` Johannes Berg
2006-08-29 11:49 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2006-08-29 17:45 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-08-29 22:15 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2006-08-29 22:26 ` Michael Wu
2006-08-30 13:36 ` Dan Williams
2006-09-21 16:52 ` Jiri Benc
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