From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:48:08 +0200 Message-ID: <1176212889.8459.100.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1176136628.8459.34.camel@johannes.berg> <461A70A5.8060607@trash.net> <20070409.114402.45491411.davem@davemloft.net> <461A9DF1.8080904@trash.net> <1176150557.8459.47.camel@johannes.berg> <461AD517.2000906@trash.net> <1176184028.8459.58.camel@johannes.berg> <461B4242.1040602@trash.net> <1176196734.8459.74.camel@johannes.berg> <461B5E42.2030900@trash.net> <1176200879.8459.77.camel@johannes.berg> <461B6B22.3090009@trash.net> <1176202930.8459.81.camel@johannes.berg> <461B7060.8000407@trash.net> <1176204297.8459.86.camel@johannes.berg> <461B7D9A.50902@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XyAThWPwt8VY2c4T1D3d" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, dim@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, containers@lists.osdl.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, greearb@candelatech.com To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:42154 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753761AbXDJNrk (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:47:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <461B7D9A.50902@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-XyAThWPwt8VY2c4T1D3d Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:05 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: >=20 > I know too little about wireless to judge really this. My opinion is > that if it is possible to add and configure an interface (even if > only for simple cases) without knowledge about driver internals by > setting a few parameters, it would probably make sense to use > RTM_NEWLINK as well. If a userspace daemon or complex knowledge of > driver internals is needed, it probably should stay seperated. It still is though we're moving towards the userspace daemon thing. > So simply put: if I can implement support for > "ip wireless add dev wlan0 mode managed essid ... key ..." > in less than 100 lines and get a working connection afterwards, it > seems worth it. For completely open networks (no "key ...") or just WEP (static key) it could probably be done, but I don't see how right now. johannes --=-XyAThWPwt8VY2c4T1D3d Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGG5WY/ETPhpq3jKURApOBAJwKR/rJ7lFnFEv5syfF3iuJRS1CcACgpSiE ABh5Ac+S8J9YLfdskOJtM98= =7DLb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XyAThWPwt8VY2c4T1D3d--