From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (other issues) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:09:23 -0500 Message-ID: <43C97693.7000109@pobox.com> References: <20060113195723.GB16166@tuxdriver.com> <20060113212605.GD16166@tuxdriver.com> <20060113213237.GH16166@tuxdriver.com> <20060113222408.GM16166@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <20060113222408.GM16166@tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org John W. Linville wrote: > Other Issues > ============ A big open issue: should you fake ethernet, or represent 802.11 natively throughout the rest of the net stack? The former causes various and sundry hacks, and the latter requires that you touch a bunch of non-802.11 code to make it aware of a new frame class. Jeff