From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/10] d80211: get rid of default management interface
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:59:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145653198.3897.47.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060421205328.39BE2482C1@silver.suse.cz>
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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 22:53 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> Default management interface (wlanXap) confuses users. It is only needed for
> AP mode (and only until interfaces are converted to use native 802.11
> frames).
What's the management interface used for? In some small discussion
didn't we say that we'd rather move to having one netlink socket for
this?
Maybe then we can get away with not having native 802.11 devices which
seem to somewhat scare people...
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-21 20:53 [PATCH 0/10] d80211: bugfixes and reducing number of interfaces Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 1/10] d80211: fix SIOCGIWESSID ioctl Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/10] d80211: use is_multicast_ether_addr Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 3/10] d80211: fix Oops caused by packets sent directly to master device Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 4/10] d80211: don't use pointer in ieee80211_tx_control Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 5/10] d80211: per-interface SSID Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 6/10] d80211: per-interface generic_elem Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 7/10] d80211: get rid of default AP interface Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 8/10] d80211: get rid of default management interface Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:59 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-04-21 21:03 ` Jiri Benc
2006-04-22 2:44 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-04-24 13:01 ` Jiri Benc
2006-04-26 18:53 ` John W. Linville
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 9/10] d80211: rename master interface Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 21:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-21 21:06 ` Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:53 ` [PATCH 10/10] d80211: add one default interface Jiri Benc
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