From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jouni Malinen" Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-dev] d80211: Add support for user space client MLME Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 09:44:23 -0700 Message-ID: <20060504164423.GA12204@instant802.com> References: <20060503183524.GD10524@instant802.com> <20060504110028.5af3a22a@griffin.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "John W. Linville" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, jkmaline@cc.hut.fi Return-path: Received: from dhost002-40.dex002.intermedia.net ([64.78.21.127]:2676 "EHLO dhost002-40.dex002.intermedia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030225AbWEDQo1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 12:44:27 -0400 To: Jiri Benc Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060504110028.5af3a22a@griffin.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA