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From: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
To: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>, Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>,
	Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>,
	Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>, feyd <feyd@nmskb.cz>,
	Andreas Mohr <andim2@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Bas Vermeulen <bvermeul@blackstar.nl>,
	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>, Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
	Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>,
	Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>,
	Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>, Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>,
	Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (stack)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:46:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C8D685.70805@thekelleys.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601131703.29677.chase.venters@clientec.com>

Chase Venters wrote:

> As an aside to this whole thing, I know we're talking about *kernel* wireless 
> but it's worthless to most people without good userland support as well. 
> Anyone have any thoughts and feelings on what things look like on the 
> desktop? I think if we work closely with some desktop people, we can shepard 
> in some wonderful new desktop support on top of the new netlink API.
> 

An obvious place to start is the NetworkManager project. They should be 
asked the obvious "what do you need" and "does this provide it" 
questions. Dan Williams has been active recently producing small kernel 
patches which make the kernel side stuff work better with NM, so he 
might be a good contact to start with.

Cheers,

Simon.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-14 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060113195723.GB16166@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-13 21:26 ` wireless: recap of current issues (intro) John W. Linville
     [not found]   ` <20060113213011.GE16166@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-13 22:19     ` wireless: recap of current issues (configuration) John W. Linville
2006-01-13 22:32       ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-14  1:17         ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-14  9:28           ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-14 13:47             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-01-14 22:07           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-15 15:20             ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-15 19:05               ` Samuel Ortiz
2006-01-16 17:09                 ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-16 18:51                   ` Samuel Ortiz
2006-01-16 19:06                     ` John W. Linville
2006-01-16 20:16                       ` Samuel Ortiz
2006-01-16 21:06                         ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-16 22:24                       ` Alan Cox
2006-01-16 23:02                         ` John W. Linville
2006-01-17 18:41                         ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-17 18:54                           ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-15 19:53               ` Sam Leffler
2006-01-16 17:28                 ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-16 17:54                   ` Sam Leffler
2006-01-16 19:40                     ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-16 20:14                       ` Sam Leffler
2006-01-16 20:58                         ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-16 18:39                   ` Dan Williams
2006-01-16 19:07                   ` Samuel Ortiz
2006-01-16 19:50                     ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-16 20:10                       ` Samuel Ortiz
2006-01-15 12:40         ` Stefan Rompf
2006-01-15 15:51           ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-15 17:53             ` Stefan Rompf
2006-01-15 20:08               ` Sam Leffler
2006-01-15 20:11                 ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-17 22:20                   ` Stefan Rompf
2006-01-15 19:39           ` Sam Leffler
2006-01-16  0:06             ` Mike Kershaw
2006-01-16 14:23         ` Jiri Benc
2006-01-16 14:55           ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-16 17:33             ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-16 18:00               ` Sam Leffler
2006-01-16 20:16                 ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-14  0:05       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-01-14 23:41       ` Dan Williams
2006-01-15 16:18         ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-15  9:35       ` feyd
     [not found]   ` <20060113213126.GF16166@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-13 22:20     ` wireless: recap of current issues (compatibility) John W. Linville
2006-01-13 22:33       ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-14 13:44         ` Krzysztof Halasa
     [not found]   ` <20060113213237.GH16166@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-13 22:24     ` wireless: recap of current issues (other issues) John W. Linville
2006-01-13 22:35       ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-13 23:02         ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-14 22:09       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-15  0:54         ` John W. Linville
2006-01-15  1:51         ` David S. Miller
2006-01-15 11:23           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-01-15 15:39         ` Stuffed Crust
2006-01-17 23:36           ` wireless: recap of current issues (other issues / fake ethernet) Stefan Rompf
2006-01-18 16:32             ` Stuffed Crust
     [not found]   ` <20060113213311.GI16166@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-13 22:25     ` wireless: recap of current issues (actions) John W. Linville
2006-01-13 22:36       ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-14 22:11       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-15  0:56         ` John W. Linville
2006-01-16 14:44           ` Johannes Berg
     [not found]   ` <20060113213200.GG16166@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-13 22:22     ` wireless: recap of current issues (stack) John W. Linville
2006-01-13 22:34       ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-13 23:03     ` Chase Venters
2006-01-14 10:46       ` Simon Kelley [this message]
2006-01-14 23:29         ` Dan Williams
2006-01-14 13:51       ` Michael Buesch
2006-01-17 17:38         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-01-14 14:13     ` Ulrich Kunitz
2006-01-15  4:42       ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-01-15 10:04         ` Ulrich Kunitz
     [not found] ` <43C80F9A.8020203@candelatech.com>
2006-01-13 22:49   ` wireless: recap of current issues Ben Greear

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