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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:14:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170699268.3572.39.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702051314.21627.flamingice@sourmilk.net>

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On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:14 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:

> Where? I don't remember getting TX frames when running ethereal on a monitor 
> interface.

Ok, maybe it's missing. I think I saw them, but not sure. They do show
up on wmaster ;)

> If we report TXed frames at the point when the driver calls 
> ieee80211_tx_status, we know whether or not an ack was received. This 
> information can be added to the TX frame that is reported to the monitor 
> interface.

Oh but do we really want to report them that late? I wouldn't think so.
That would give us out-of-order issues wrt. the air...

> I'm not sure what you mean. The program can get the configuration info it 
> needs from nl80211/cfg80211/WE and send/inject frames through the monitor 
> interface.

Well, I guess I'm saying that wpa_supplicant shouldn't need the monitor
iface at all since it wants just management frames and we should give
those to it via netlink to avoid having to add more radiotap foo.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-05 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31  1:37 [RFC] cfg80211 merge John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:38 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211 John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:39   ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] wireless: move wext to net/wireless/ John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:41     ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client John W. Linville
2007-01-31 14:40     ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] wireless: move wext to net/wireless/ Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-31 19:00       ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-31  2:46   ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211 Michael Wu
2007-01-31 17:37     ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 20:24       ` Michael Buesch
2007-02-01 10:18     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 17:45       ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 17:49         ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 18:14           ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 18:14             ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-02-05 18:29               ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-05 18:29                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 19:13                 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-05 19:23               ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 19:24                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 19:55                   ` Michael Wu
2007-02-09 16:14                     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 18:16           ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31  2:48 ` [RFC] cfg80211 merge Jouni Malinen
2007-01-31 17:29   ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 18:32     ` John W. Linville
2007-01-31 19:25       ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 20:07         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-31 20:44           ` John W. Linville
2007-01-31 21:06             ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-31 23:54               ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-01 13:07                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-01 14:04                   ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-01 14:11                     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-02 18:18                       ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-03 17:37                         ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-01 14:12                     ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-07  0:46 ` [RFC v2] " John W. Linville
2007-02-07  0:47   ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] wireless: add cfg80211 John W. Linville
     [not found]     ` <20070207004832.GC23096@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-07  0:49       ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client John W. Linville
2007-02-07  7:54         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 13:13           ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 18:38             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-08 18:50               ` John W. Linville
2007-02-08 19:41                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-09 15:43                   ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 19:55               ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 21:56                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-09  2:09                 ` Dan Williams
2007-02-07  7:35     ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] wireless: add cfg80211 Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 13:12       ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 19:17         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-07 14:39   ` [RFC v2] cfg80211 merge John W. Linville

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