Wireless interface status

Currently it seems if a (wireless) interface does not have an IP protocol address, i3status treats it as "down". An interface which does not have a protocol address may or not be down, and in case it is up I want to be able to display information about it.

My current use case:

On laptop I run a link aggregation between built-in wireless card and Ethernet adapter. I do this because is currently the best way to use an Ethernet card when plugged in, wireless otherwise using just **one** protocol address and without worrying with DHCP route metrics to prefer the Ethernet card.
In this scenario the wireless interface does not have a protocol address. The protocol address is set on the bond0 interface in Linux . However the wireless interface still has meaningful interface which I like to display, namely the SSID and signal strength.

Please consider changing i3status in a way that decouples interface status from protocol addresses.