From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, dim@openvz.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
containers@lists.osdl.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
shemminger@linux-foundation.org, greearb@candelatech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:05:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461B7D9A.50902@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176204297.8459.86.camel@johannes.berg>
Johannes Berg wrote:
> Fair enough. Then the question however remains whether wireless should
> try to do all things it needs in one or try leveraging multiple things
> from other places. Thoughts?
I know too little about wireless to judge really this. My opinion is
that if it is possible to add and configure an interface (even if
only for simple cases) without knowledge about driver internals by
setting a few parameters, it would probably make sense to use
RTM_NEWLINK as well. If a userspace daemon or complex knowledge of
driver internals is needed, it probably should stay seperated.
So simply put: if I can implement support for
"ip wireless add dev wlan0 mode managed essid ... key ..."
in less than 100 lines and get a working connection afterwards, it
seems worth it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-10 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 20:43 [PATCH] net: Add etun driver Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 20:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 21:38 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-06 20:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 22:01 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07 2:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-09 16:37 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-09 16:58 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-09 18:14 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-09 18:37 ` David Miller
2007-04-09 18:48 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-09 18:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-09 18:44 ` David Miller
2007-04-09 19:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-09 19:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 20:03 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-09 20:11 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-09 20:29 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 0:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 5:47 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 6:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-10 6:18 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 7:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 9:18 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 9:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 10:27 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 10:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 11:02 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 11:09 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 11:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 11:24 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 12:05 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-04-10 13:44 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-10 13:48 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 21:16 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-11 16:43 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-11 16:59 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 20:57 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-07 2:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 21:20 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07 2:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-07 3:31 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07 5:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-07 7:31 ` Ben Greear
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