From: mabbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
Simon Barber <simon@devicescape.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] Add basic support for IEEE 802.11n discovery and association
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:23:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461D5FC5.5070404@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704111630.06160.flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Michael Wu wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 16:04, mabbas wrote:
>
>> I am not familiar with userspace mlme what needed to be done?
>>
> mac80211 has a userspace mlme mode which defers all things dealing with
> management frames to userspace (wpa_supplicant). It basically disables all
> the code in ieee80211_sta.c and routes management frames to a special
> interface where wpa_supplicant (or hostap) handles things. This is preferred
> and the ieee80211_sta.c code is there for backwards compatibility.
>
> No major features should be added to the in-kernel MLME (ieee80211_sta.c) but
> even more importantly, your patch series does not provide the appropriate
> hooks for a userspace MLME to support a driver using this 802.11n API.
>
> -Michael Wu
>
where i can get mac80211 userspace mlme?
Mohamed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-26 11:38 [patch 2/5] Add basic support for IEEE 802.11n discovery and association mohamed
2007-03-26 23:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-04 10:37 ` mabbas
2007-03-27 17:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-03-27 17:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-03-27 17:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-03-29 6:04 ` mohamed
2007-03-28 19:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-03-29 7:21 ` mohamed
2007-03-28 9:14 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-29 5:56 ` mohamed
2007-03-28 20:03 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-29 19:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <1ba2fa240703291648h6b0d10bdje2ea54f3c1754f5b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-03-30 10:38 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1ba2fa240703300418r781931cdp50430dcb02259f1@mail.gmail.com>
2007-03-30 12:11 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-31 15:37 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-11 19:40 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-11 20:04 ` mabbas
2007-04-11 20:29 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-11 22:03 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-04-11 22:50 ` Simon Barber
2007-04-11 23:05 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-04-11 23:25 ` Andy Green
2007-04-12 8:56 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-12 9:01 ` Andy Green
2007-04-12 9:06 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-12 0:20 ` Simon Barber
2007-04-12 1:13 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-04-11 22:23 ` mabbas [this message]
2007-04-11 22:56 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-12 18:11 ` mabbas
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