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From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:05:25 -0700

> Would people be fine with extending wireless_send_event() with new
> event types that use fixed sized fields or is someone going to be
> interesting in providing a better replacement for this
> functionality?

I thought this was the idea behind nl80211?  To be a new netlink
interface for wireless, one that actually is designed correctly
from the start and thus can avoid all of these problems.