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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, jkmaline@cc.hut.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space client MLME
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 14:26:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146745613.1137.28.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060503164458.GB10524@instant802.com>

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On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 09:44 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> But there is.. I committed changes to the wpa_supplicant devel branch
> for this yesterday. It seems to work fine with net/d80211 and bcm43xx
> with this small patch to d80211 to allow the functionality to be moved
> into user space.

Cool, do you have a list of things that we need to support for it to
work on a 'softmac' based driver (iow removing softmac in favour of
this)?

> I have not yet heard of anyone working with details of converting the
> management frame communication to use netlink.

I have an interest in this, as soon as I can I'll try writing up
something.

johannes

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-02 21:18 [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space client MLME Jouni Malinen
2006-05-03 16:28 ` Jiri Benc
2006-05-03 16:44   ` Jouni Malinen
2006-05-03 18:10     ` Jiri Benc
2006-05-03 18:35       ` Jouni Malinen
2006-05-04  9:00         ` Jiri Benc
2006-05-04 16:44           ` Jouni Malinen
2006-05-05 10:13             ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-05 13:17             ` [PATCH] d80211: switching management interface on/off Jiri Benc
2006-05-04 12:26     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-05-10 17:17       ` [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space clientMLME Jouni Malinen
2006-05-11 11:41         ` Johannes Berg

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