Re: userspace MLME

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:35 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

>  1) repost/integrate the injection patches

1b) do that filtering work we talked about
1c) implement the variety of monitor modes and that promisc bit
    passing through to drivers

> [1] Actually, I'd think that *all* commands should be forwarded to the
> userspace MLME except for commands *from* the userspace MLME. That way,
> the userspace MLME can act as a filter for commands which should make a
> whole bunch of things easier.

Ok so I just talked about this with Thomas Graf and Herbert Xu and
Herbert suggested that we solves the "single userspace MLME" only issue
in userspace. Then, we create a new multicast group for "userspace MLME"
that it signs up for. Then, we can use netlink_has_listeners to decide
whether there's a userspace MLME or not (we could even add a new command
"is userspace MLME present" based on that)

johannes

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