From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jkmaline@cc.hut.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space client MLME
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:13:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146823994.1137.65.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060504164423.GA12204@instant802.com>
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On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 09:44 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Yes. Currently, I'm just using a configuration file parameter for this,
> but this information should eventually be exported by the kernel code to
> allow wpa_supplicant to select which mode to use without requiring user
> configuration.
For the upcoming netlink interface, I'd suggest having a group of calls
that are needed for full-mac devices (similar to the current wext) and a
second group that are needed for soft-mlme, that way you simply try out
one for the soft-mlme and if not implemented fall back to hard, or the
other way around. Maybe.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-02 21:18 [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space client MLME Jouni Malinen
2006-05-03 16:28 ` Jiri Benc
2006-05-03 16:44 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-05-03 18:10 ` Jiri Benc
2006-05-03 18:35 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-05-04 9:00 ` Jiri Benc
2006-05-04 16:44 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-05-05 10:13 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-05-05 13:17 ` [PATCH] d80211: switching management interface on/off Jiri Benc
2006-05-04 12:26 ` [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space client MLME Johannes Berg
2006-05-10 17:17 ` [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space clientMLME Jouni Malinen
2006-05-11 11:41 ` Johannes Berg
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