From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Simon Barber <simon@devicescape.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
David Kimdon <dwhedon@devicescape.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather thand80211-specificqdisc
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:39:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061103193906.GB3286@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C86180A8C204554D8A3323D8F6B0A29F018B5FB0@dhost002-46.dex002.intermedia.net>
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:29:33AM -0800, Simon Barber wrote:
> I should elaborate - if 802.11 is made into a real protocol - then raw
> packet capture works correctly on the master device. (raw sockets opened
> on the device see all frames before they are passed to the protocol).
> This is the right way to go.
There is some merit to this idea. Then we could attach IBSS, WDS,
STA, or AP sub-interfaces (with or without ethernet encapsulation) in
a manner similar to how VLAN sub-interfaces are attached to ethernet
devices today.
Of course, I seem to remember ranting against that model a few
months ago. I'll just wave my hands and call it pragmatism... :-)
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-03 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 22:04 [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc David Kimdon
2006-10-25 23:29 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 1:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 2:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 3:37 ` Simon Barber
2006-10-26 5:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 5:15 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-01 10:28 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-01 14:20 ` John W. Linville
2006-11-01 18:31 ` James Ketrenos
2006-11-02 0:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-02 1:48 ` d80211 merge (was Re: [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc) James Ketrenos
2006-11-02 2:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-02 8:49 ` cfg80211/nl80211/WE (was: Re: d80211 merge) Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 8:59 ` cfg80211/nl80211/WE Jeff Garzik
2006-11-02 10:56 ` cfg80211/nl80211/WE (was: Re: d80211 merge) Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-02 12:03 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 12:16 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-02 14:05 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-02 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-02 14:32 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 14:41 ` Jochen Friedrich
2006-11-02 14:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-02 15:02 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 16:38 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-02 15:42 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-02 16:09 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-11-02 18:38 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-02 20:58 ` Dan Williams
2006-11-02 21:27 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-02 22:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-02 23:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2006-11-02 14:22 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 16:33 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather thand80211-specific qdisc Simon Barber
2006-11-02 16:43 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 22:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-02 22:56 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-03 19:23 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather thand80211-specificqdisc Simon Barber
2006-11-03 19:29 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-03 19:39 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2006-11-03 23:07 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-04 2:20 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops ratherthand80211-specificqdisc Simon Barber
2006-11-02 14:06 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc John W. Linville
2006-10-26 1:34 ` Simon Barber
2006-10-26 1:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 3:17 ` Simon Barber
2006-10-26 2:04 ` Patrick McHardy
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