From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jouni Malinen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] wext Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:45:48 -0700 Message-ID: <20061004214548.GQ10337@instant802.com> References: <200610021955.23112.chunkeey@web.de> <1159951043.2817.36.camel@ux156> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: chunkeey@web.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dhost002-42.dex002.intermedia.net ([64.78.21.132]:11365 "EHLO dhost002-42.dex002.intermedia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169AbWJDVp5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:45:57 -0400 To: Johannes Berg Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1159951043.2817.36.camel@ux156> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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