From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhu Yi Subject: Re: [0/5] Improvements to the ieee80211 layer Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:55:16 +0800 Message-ID: <1117004116.3737.30.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> References: <20050524150711.01632672@griffin.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: NetDev , LKML , jgarzik@pobox.com, pavel@suse.cz Return-path: To: Jiri Benc In-Reply-To: <20050524150711.01632672@griffin.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:07 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > The ieee80211 layer, now present in -mm, lacks many important features > (actually it's just a part of the ipw2100/ipw2200 driver; these cards do > a lot of the processing in the hardware/firmware and thus the layer > currently can not be used for simpler devices). > > This is the first series of patches that try to convert it to a generic > IEEE 802.11 layer, usable for most of today's wireless cards. > > The long term plan is: > - to implement a complete 802.11 stack in the kernel, making it easy to > write drivers for simple (cheap) devices > - to implement all of Ad-Hoc, AP and monitor modes in the layer, so it > will be easy to support them in the drivers > - to integrate Wireless Extensions to unify the kernel-userspace > interface of all the drivers Do you just clean up current ieee80211 code to still do 802.11 <-> 802.3 conversion inside the driver or you plan to handle real 802.11 frames in the stack like this? http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-03/msg01405.html Thanks, -yi