On Monday 05 February 2007 14:24, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 14:23 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:
> > Anyway, netlink does not seem appropriate for
> > sending or receiving frames.
>
> Care to explain why you think so?
>
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)
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.

-Michael Wu