From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:33006 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752088AbXBERx3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:53:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211 From: Johannes Berg To: Michael Wu Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <200702051245.35452.flamingice@sourmilk.net> References: <20070131013717.GA28076@tuxdriver.com> <200701302146.05289.flamingice@sourmilk.net> <1170325092.2236.17.camel@johannes.berg> <200702051245.35452.flamingice@sourmilk.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-A03yEjQN+YPU1yYzDUau" Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:49:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1170697795.3572.32.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-A03yEjQN+YPU1yYzDUau Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 12:45 -0500, Michael Wu wrote: > Okay then, let's not use fake frames then.=20 :) > Let's make monitor interfaces=20 > resemble monitoring ethernet a little more by reporting both RXed frames = and=20 > TXed frames. *BSD does this too and it makes running ethereal on monitor=20 > interfaces much more useful.=20 We do this right now afaik. > TX frame reporting can be done simply in the=20 > ieee80211_tx_status call, allowing the TX status to be reported on real=20 > frames.=20 I don't quite understand this comment. TX status reporting should go via nl80211. > Doing this is actually somewhat orthogonal to packet injection via netlin= k or=20 > monitor interface, but if we are reporting TXed frames with a radiotap=20 > header, we might as well allow frame injection with a radiotap frame for=20 > consistency. Well, it hasn't got much merit because for anything useful you'll need to get state information on nl80211. johannes --=-A03yEjQN+YPU1yYzDUau Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBFx25D/ETPhpq3jKURAnpkAJwKd9oD1vGg1TrA0NI+C8gK9IR8BACeIbwg od7BuU5xH1HcXZ1IL0iZaoM= =lgEP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-A03yEjQN+YPU1yYzDUau--