From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: Simon Barber <simon@devicescape.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>,
Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>, Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>,
David Kimdon <dwhedon@devicescape.com>,
Udayan Singh <udayan.singh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: wireless notes / pre d80211 merge
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:47:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455B60D3.5050108@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061115104359.3ce80e3b@griffin.suse.cz>
Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:10:50 -0800, Simon Barber wrote:
>> I disagree that the master device is a hack
>
> It's a clever hack but still a hack. The Linux network interfaces
> wasn't designed for the sort of things we do with master interface.
> Actually, the networking core doesn't support the concept of "wiphys"
> at all. Yes, Jouni found a really clever way around this. But the most
> correct solution is different.
Agreed.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-14 22:19 wireless notes / pre d80211 merge Johannes Berg
2006-11-15 0:11 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-15 2:10 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-15 9:43 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-15 10:13 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-15 18:47 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-11-15 10:03 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-15 18:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-15 9:16 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-15 10:05 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-15 10:16 ` Johannes Berg
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