From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/10] d80211: get rid of default management interface Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:59:58 +0200 Message-ID: <1145653198.3897.47.camel@localhost> References: <20060421205328.39BE2482C1@silver.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-UujNaCDuDRjAmTvjg8up" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:15561 "EHLO sipsolutions.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750868AbWDUVAB (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:00:01 -0400 To: Jiri Benc In-Reply-To: <20060421205328.39BE2482C1@silver.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-UujNaCDuDRjAmTvjg8up Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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).=20 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 --=-UujNaCDuDRjAmTvjg8up Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIVAwUARElHzKVg1VMiehFYAQKn8hAAgtYVh91JdwAr1CGTkuAponDlZWF1ZZbg Dj4zcvkCZvpCJD6P6NwOyyLTRpkNMyQpza5hc4nfxV5z+cs9tmZzGy8JvDJX0Ax5 uIeleWTrhsUHzz71kBv7I3qwGxyG1WLEadx29aSqQaaA3UvVaTfEnFDr8pZNfCHS HXgxuWRVLFt1OhEUViERs+AFvTQifvbNFevSEimTLQu+82n8rKyVciqDRSl4AcQa Io0YK8JPIWqEn8ZYwp2zf4MH0NmZSV9KfJ/RtgIQcAYTYhXAmEXaRGuODTa48EuL lvFETsyOn7PkS0zd+KKaiqSyxeChuewV102/l/xEmB+5ke3o+bvJs4LkNWw/lDW0 oszsbl5FK8fXwduo2+t0ABqwZWKo5HI3LjlOwoRgPoxFcpoWFt5YygmT7etHXmyi i3V2gawWUqSZx5DYyxAzXJLdPgW0915SBN10GpKbU+YqWKNbg+ZEs7PLFWUzZ/HR MiDwydqx0u7Pta5FvzdFizkC2xr5vB+BkTiN7QVkMWGiwB05BZe9iN/Tfmjy8TFO sYjPhn4YltHjwCY586WUuyifLhfVvMgq/G8mcOUjzlDsKjbjtrgoGLzjuBUa5JFv LRU712f84M3aZdvWBGwlrd++6eKBv/5zhHekSDdNJchmhhRfNTbA4RirW3OZ22Kj Lew4XQ4s3Lk= =DWbA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-UujNaCDuDRjAmTvjg8up--