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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: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:14:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171037648.4520.16.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702051455.59331.flamingice@sourmilk.net>

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 14:55 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:

> 1. Userspace usually expects to send things on network interfaces. The kernel 
> usually receives frames from userspace on network interfaces. I don't see the 
> point of making an exception for 802.11 frames. (or rather, the potential for 
> simpler frame injection code is not enough to justify inventing a new 
> interface for doing it)

I guess I'm a purist here and would expect to be able to push frames of
whatever type the interface says it supports, if any. But this breaks,
you'll be pushing some sort of extensible format down there. [1]

Also, assuming that we do transmit software in userspace then has to
parse the 

> 2. nl80211/cfg80211 is for configuring interfaces. Everything there is related 
> to configuration of wireless interfaces except for the frame injection hook. 
> It doesn't look right.

Ok, well, I've removed it for now.

johannes

[1] it would have to be, I'm sure new frame injection requirements will
come up at some point and we can't break old apps



  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09 16:16 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
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 [this message]
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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