Re: [Madwifi-devel] Feedback wanted - Patch to IEEE80211_IOCTL_GETCHANINFO / add IEEE80211_IOCTL_GETALLCHANINFO

[Michael T. <mik...@ap...>]

Certainly, but I am concerned about breaking the API compatibility for 
other users of the IOCTL than wlanconfig.  I can fix wlanconfig, but I 
have no idea what else is out there.  Do we care about that?

Matthew "mentor" Bell wrote:
> Michael Taylor wrote:
>> Second, add IEEE80211_IOCTL_GETALLCHANINFO that returns the entire set 
>> of ieee80211_channel contents, without the filtering currently done 
>> for wlanconfig athX list chan.
> Could you change the semantics of the old IOCTL so that it could do this 
> - possibly by adding a parameter...
> 
> mentor
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -    return _ieee80211_ioctl_getchaninfo(dev, info, w, extra, /* 
>> unfiltered */ 1);
>> +    return _ieee80211_ioctl_getchaninfo(dev, info, w, extra, /* 
>> unfiltered */ 0);
>>