From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Tourrilhes Subject: Re: Wireless Extensions WE-18 questions Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:41:36 -0700 Sender: hostap-bounces+gldh-hostap-597=gmane.org@shmoo.com Message-ID: <20040809164136.GA17028@bougret.hpl.hp.com> References: <1091444633.2767.8.camel@rootix> <20040803070843.GB7153@jm.kir.nu> <1091929000.2800.12.camel@rootix> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Jouni Malinen , hostap@shmoo.com Return-path: To: Pedro Ramalhais Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1091929000.2800.12.camel@rootix> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: hostap-bounces+gldh-hostap-597=gmane.org@shmoo.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:36:40AM +0100, Pedro Ramalhais wrote: > > This one is more oriented to the design of the wireless extensions and > should probably go to Jean Tourrilhes: > - the switch/case logic (for set_auth/get_auth at least) should really > be in the wireless extensions. Not everybody is using a wireless card, and of those using wireless cards, not all of them are using WPA. Therefore, my goal is to minimise kernel bloat. If you don't like the current situation, there are two avenues : o use different ioctls o use a separate common module to demultiplex the ioctl > PS: I was hoping someone had already answer my e-mail about the creation > of a linux wireless mailing list, and this message would be sent to the > new list... oh well Check the archive of netdev mailing list a few months back. Have fun... Jean