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Re: [PATCH 3/4] mac80211: Monitor mode radiotap injection docs

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On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 12:18 +0100, Andy Green wrote:

> Well, the actual injection action is happening in mac80211.  I think 
> you're looking at it as a cfg80211 wext-replacing type thing and I am 
> looking at it as completely generic mac80211 packet injection from 
> userspace.

Yeah. Don't worry about it. We can move it later and define it for
cfg80211 when we introduce the userspace mlme stuff.

> > Drop all that, it's generic radiotap description. Put it into another
> > file if you want.
> 
> This kind of description makes documentation useful to the reader, who 
> may never have heard of radiotap (it is not very visible in Google right 
> now in a useful way).

Maybe just stick it into a radiotap file and refer to that? I'm just a
bit worried that it'll get outdated because somebody looking for
radiotap stuff won't find it here when updating. Not sure it can even
get outdated though.

> It's ~380 lines.  It also knows how to conjure up management interfaces. 
>   I can chop it down and put it in here if you feel it is important.

It's probably easy enough to write from the docs so probably not really
necessary. I think when I wrote this I was offline so couldn't actually
check out the demo program ;)

> I appreciate the comments, but I am 100% sure that some correct 
> documentation that may be over-chatty is better than no documentation at 
> all.  After hesitating and starting to change it I left it as it is, if 
> you still feel these things are important comment in that direction 
> again on the new patch and I will grit my teeth and change it.

No, don't take me too seriously. I appreciate documentation I may not
agree with in all points much more than the lack thereof :)

johannes

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