From: Reiner Herrmann <r_herrma@informatik.uni-kl.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org" <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
"m_wilhel@informatik.uni-kl.de" <m_wilhel@informatik.uni-kl.de>
Subject: Re: Sending netlink messages in mac80211 tx handler
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:55:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A30E295.6050505@informatik.uni-kl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244716215.4706.11.camel@johannes.local>
Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 00:49 +0200, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
>
>>>> nla_put_u32(skb, NL80211_ATTR_DISCOSEC_HELO, 42);
>>>> genlmsg_end(skb, hdr);
>>>> genlmsg_unicast(skb, get_daemon_pid());
>
>> Thank you for your hint! I searched for hours and couldn't
>> find the problem. It's working great now.
>
> Can I ask what you're trying to achieve? Having local modifications in
> nl80211 is a very bad thing.
>
> johannes
I want to talk to userspace to do some complex calculations. As this
concerns mac80211 I thought the best way to do that is via nl80211,
whose task it is to provide easy communication between mac80211 and
userspace (like with hostapd and iw).
Reiner
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-11 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 23:02 Sending netlink messages in mac80211 tx handler Reiner Herrmann
2009-06-10 1:13 ` Zhu Yi
2009-06-10 22:49 ` Reiner Herrmann
2009-06-11 10:30 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-11 10:55 ` Reiner Herrmann [this message]
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