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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:55:17 +0200
From: Reiner Herrmann <r_herrma@informatik.uni-kl.de>
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Subject: Re: Sending netlink messages in mac80211 tx handler
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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