From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754127AbYIIFng (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:43:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752925AbYIIFnZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:43:25 -0400 Received: from hostap.isc.org ([149.20.54.63]:59573 "EHLO hostap.isc.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751896AbYIIFnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:43:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:34:39 -0700 From: Jouni Malinen To: David Miller Cc: j@w1.fi, jouni.malinen@atheros.com, alex.williamson@hp.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Message-ID: <20080909053439.GA27066@hostap.isc.org> References: <20080909025525.GB25148@hostap.isc.org> <20080908.204323.04156464.davem@davemloft.net> <20080909040525.GA26151@hostap.isc.org> <20080908.211548.216826057.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080908.211548.216826057.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:15:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Jouni Malinen > > Would people be fine with extending wireless_send_event() with new > > event types that use fixed sized fields or is someone going to be > > interesting in providing a better replacement for this > > functionality? > I thought this was the idea behind nl80211? To be a new netlink > interface for wireless, one that actually is designed correctly > from the start and thus can avoid all of these problems. Well, this wireless_send_event() is the part of WEXT that no one has worked with replacing yet as far as I'm aware.. The currently available infrastructure in nl80211 can be relatively easily extended to handle all other functionality, but unless I've missed something, this sending of event messages to user space would require new type of functionality for nl8211. In other words, sure, it can be done, but we are not there yet. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA