[OE-core] iw in place of wireless-tools

[Iorga, Cristian]

Hello Noor, all,

An analysis of the differences, improvements, maybe possible shortcomings of iw versus wireless-tools would be nice.

For a start:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw/replace-iwconfig
Basically, this says that iw is simpler to use than wireless-tools various commands.
It is unclear to me if iw functionality matches wireless-tools functionality or maybe surpasses it, maybe someone else has info on this?
On my Ubuntu 13.10 dev machine, wireless-tools and iw are both installed by default (I might be wrong here, maybe I installed them some time ago by hand).


Regards,
Cristian Iorga
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From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Ahsan, Noor
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:55 PM
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Subject: [OE-core] iw in place of wireless-tools

Hello,

I read in couple of threads that iw is replacing wireless-tools in linux wireless world and people recommending replacing wireless-tools with iw in oe-core. I did not see it happening. Here I am starting this thread to discuss this so that we can make the decision and replace these two recipes with each other. Comments?

Noor

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