On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 11:30:40AM +0100, Iñaki Ucar wrote:
I didn't complain. I'm not opposing, yet I'm
acknowledging that it is
not true that iwconfig is unused. It is very much used, if not just
for printing the nice summary that the tool provides when called
without arguments.
IIRC there are still a few WEXT-only drivers for obsolete wifi hardware
in the Linux kernel. I don't know if Fedora builds them or not, but drop
iwconfig and that hardware becomes unusable under Fedora. (prism2_usb
comes to mind)
Meanwhile, the default summary output of 'iwconfig' is all I have used
it for in many, many years. It is _very_ useful in a way that no other
tool has been. (not unlike the default output of ifconfig _still_ being
more generally useful than 'ip')
I'm sure all of the info that iwconfig provides can be extracted from
iw, but it's a lot less convenient. (Plus some of us have muscle memory
going back to when iwconfig was the new hotness...)
- Solomon
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