From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>, Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: 802.11 headers
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:48:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155800899.3653.13.camel@ux156> (raw)
The d80211 headers are messy. Before merging, we definitely need to
clean them up and split them between userland-visible and kernel-only
headers, or else ... ;)
My current thoughts:
- net/d80211_common.h can die sometime soon due to being replaced with
linux/nl80211.h (to be published today).
- net/d80211_mgmt.h needs cleaning up (I know Michael has been doing
some of that), and then should probably be renamed to
linux/ieee80211.h and be userland-visible, and contain a bunch of
other frame definitions as well. A bit like net/ieee80211.h now,
though more protocol-centric.
- net/ieee80211_radiotap.h should be userland-visible, and hence
linux/radiotap.h or such.
- net/d80211_shared.h probably has the same fate as
net/d80211_common.h, except for the _RATE_* thingies, but I'm not
sure why they should be userland-visible.
- net/d80211.h can stay there as-is, it's in-kernel only API.
Or put another way, my suggestions:
- put all in-kernel API (for drivers) into net/d80211.h
- put stuff defined in the IEEE 802.11 specification series into
linux/ieee80211.h, make user-visible (headers-y in Kbuild!). This
serves just as a reference. It's not really necessary that the kernel
ships this, but we need it in the kernel and probably won't be
pulling it from some other source. Besides, I wouldn't know where
else to maintain it.
- radiotap simply moves to linux/ and gets to be userland-visible. Of
course, d80211 should actually start using it too ;)
- all the other userland stuff seems to be configuration related and
hence moves over to linux/nl80211.h
Comments?
johannes
next reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 7:48 UTC|newest]
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2006-08-17 7:48 Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-08-17 12:34 ` 802.11 headers Jiri Benc
2006-08-17 12:43 ` John W. Linville
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