From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: "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, 4 May 2006 09:44:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060504164423.GA12204@instant802.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060504110028.5af3a22a@griffin.suse.cz>
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:00:28AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> Ok. So what about PRISM2_HOSTAPD_MGMT_IF ioctl that will add management
> interface (if not added yet) and return its ifindex? It would accept a
> boolean parameter (like PRISM2_PARAM_HOSTAPD) to add/remove that
> interface. If you agree with this, I will make a patch.
Yes, that would be fine.
> Of course, both hostapd and wpa_supplicant needs to be changed for that.
> This should not be a problem now as the d80211 stack is not in a common
> use yet.
Sure, no problems with that at the moment.
> So wpa_supplicant needs to know if the card is softmac or fullmac and
> behave accordingly, right?
Yes. Currently, I'm just using a configuration file parameter for this,
but this information should eventually be exported by the kernel code to
allow wpa_supplicant to select which mode to use without requiring user
configuration.
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-04 16:44 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space client MLME Johannes Berg
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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