From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: NetDev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>, jbohac@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [0/5] Improvements to the ieee80211 layer
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:36:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117078580.3737.81.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050525132055.469f10d7@griffin.suse.cz>
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 13:20 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 14:55:16 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> > Do you just clean up current ieee80211 code to still do 802.11 <-> 802.3
> > conversion inside the driver or you plan to handle real 802.11 frames in
> > the stack like this?
> > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-03/msg01405.html
>
> We are trying to handle real 802.11 frames. Have you made any progress
> in your work since posting that patch? If so, could you please post it
> to netdev (or to us)?
No much progress since that. I planned to add a new type SOCK_80211 to
PF_PACKET domain, so that user space can send packets through the 80211
stack but don't need to build 802.11 headers themselves. This can be
used by programs like wpa_supplicant. Do you know some better way to do
this?
Thanks,
-yi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-26 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-24 13:07 [0/5] Improvements to the ieee80211 layer Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 13:10 ` [1/5] ieee80211: cleanup Jiri Benc
2005-05-28 2:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-24 13:11 ` [2/5] ieee80211: ieee80211_device alignment fix and cleanup Jiri Benc
2005-05-28 3:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-31 13:30 ` Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 13:12 ` [3/5] netdev: HH_DATA_OFF bugfix Jiri Benc
2005-05-28 3:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-24 13:12 ` [4/5] ieee80211: ethernet independency Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 13:13 ` [5/5] ieee80211: add sequence numbers Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 13:15 ` [1-2/6] ipw2100, ipw2200: patches to merge to kernel Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 17:24 ` Dave Jones
2005-05-24 17:56 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-24 13:16 ` [3/6] ipw2100: fix after "ieee80211: cleanup" Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 13:18 ` [4/6] ipw2100: fix after "ieee80211_device alignment fix" Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 18:58 ` Pavel Machek
2005-05-24 19:18 ` Jirka Bohac
2005-05-24 13:19 ` [5/6] ipw2200: " Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 13:20 ` [6/6] ipw2200: fix after "ieee80211: ethernet independency" Jiri Benc
2005-05-24 18:52 ` [0/5] Improvements to the ieee80211 layer Pavel Machek
2005-05-25 8:29 ` Jirka Bohac
2005-05-25 9:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-05-25 9:42 ` Jiri Benc
2005-05-25 6:55 ` Zhu Yi
2005-05-25 11:20 ` Jiri Benc
2005-05-26 3:36 ` Zhu Yi [this message]
2005-05-28 3:18 ` Jeff Garzik
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