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From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: chunkeey@web.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wext
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:45:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004214548.GQ10337@instant802.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159951043.2817.36.camel@ux156>

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:37:23AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 19:55 +0200, chunkeey@web.de wrote:
> > This patch (wext-patch) is a proposal. It adds two new defines for the 
> > SIOCSIWMLME to cover all kinds MLMEs (well, except REASSOC) through a ioctl.
> > (it would be nice to have them, so that I can post the hostapd code for the 
> > prism54 card!)
> 
> NACK from me. Please help me work on nl80211 instead :)

SIOCSIWMLME was designed to allow additional MLME commands to be added.
IMHO, a potential replacement in the future should not prevent us from
extending WEXT at this point and stop all changes in something that is
currently available.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-04 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-02 17:55 [PATCH] wext chunkeey
2006-10-04  8:37 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-04 10:56   ` chunkeey
2006-10-04 11:06     ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-04 21:45   ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2006-10-05  8:15     ` Johannes Berg

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