From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:35553 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934345AbXFHKd7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:33:59 -0400 Subject: Re: userspace MLME From: Johannes Berg To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: "John W. Linville" , Michael Wu , Jouni Malinen , Zhu Yi , Jiri Benc In-Reply-To: <1181295319.6533.50.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1181295319.6533.50.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Wz6QH6wv94WW3yIgHklT" Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:34:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1181298853.6533.58.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-Wz6QH6wv94WW3yIgHklT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=-Wz6QH6wv94WW3yIgHklT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGaTCl/ETPhpq3jKURAt8RAJ9IS8HyI+kn87AGr6Jz1X7uAcAEvgCfZsZl i17LDgmTOF1kgVZI5pnDtK0= =6MmS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Wz6QH6wv94WW3yIgHklT--