From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] d80211: add ioctl to stop data frame tx Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:23:37 +0200 Message-ID: <1157009017.3065.14.camel@ux156> References: <20060822173241.313859000@devicescape.com> <20060822173419.GF12500@devicescape.com> <1156317906.3629.18.camel@ux156> <1156836657.3788.5.camel@ux156> <20060829114515.GA29669@tuxdriver.com> <20060829183947.GJ1701@instant802.com> <1156922781.4013.13.camel@ux156> <20060830160115.GB18041@instant802.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "John W. Linville" , Elliot Schwartz , David Kimdon , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Benc Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:39620 "EHLO sipsolutions.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751032AbWHaHXF (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:23:05 -0400 To: Jouni Malinen In-Reply-To: <20060830160115.GB18041@instant802.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:01 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > Well, it would be nice to get these in quite soon. I know that the > current mechanism works since it has been used for years, but if the > netlink-based solution is considered stable and working and unlikely to > require major changes soon, I don't have anything against using it here. :) May I ask you to take a look at nl80211 to see if it matches your expectations/needs? It obviously needs to be expanded and we may want to add some multicast groups that applications can subscribe to for scan results/radar detection/management frames/... What really should be done soon is implementing transmit status notification for injected packets since injection is already working. I just happen to not need it at the moment and have a bunch of other things to do. > Once there is mechanism to replace all the current functionality, I > would just drop it. There is some meta information, like signal > strength, in the header, so this does not only include event > notifications, but also additional data for frames. That meta information can be transmitted through other channels too though :) johannes