From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: 802.11 headers
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:43:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060817124327.GA17771@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060817143443.77ede2e5@griffin.suse.cz>
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:34:43PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:48:19 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Or put another way, my suggestions:
> > - put all in-kernel API (for drivers) into net/d80211.h
> > - put stuff defined in the IEEE 802.11 specification series into
> > linux/ieee80211.h, make user-visible (headers-y in Kbuild!). This
> > serves just as a reference. It's not really necessary that the kernel
> > ships this, but we need it in the kernel and probably won't be
> > pulling it from some other source. Besides, I wouldn't know where
> > else to maintain it.
> > - radiotap simply moves to linux/ and gets to be userland-visible. Of
> > course, d80211 should actually start using it too ;)
> > - all the other userland stuff seems to be configuration related and
> > hence moves over to linux/nl80211.h
> >
> > Comments?
>
> I like this proposal.
I second that.
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-17 7:48 802.11 headers Johannes Berg
2006-08-17 12:34 ` Jiri Benc
2006-08-17 12:43 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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