On Monday 05 February 2007 13:14, Johannes Berg wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean. The program can get the configuration info it > > needs from nl80211/cfg80211/WE and send/inject frames through the monitor > > interface. > > Well, I guess I'm saying that wpa_supplicant shouldn't need the monitor > iface at all since it wants just management frames and we should give > those to it via netlink to avoid having to add more radiotap foo. > Yeah, a monitor interface is overkill for wpa_supplicant. We can make the IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MGMT be a sort of filtered monitor interface optimized for userspace MLME. Or maybe add some sort of filtering configuration for monitor interfaces.. might be overkill. Anyway, netlink does not seem appropriate for sending or receiving frames. -Michael Wu
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