On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 09:51 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > The thing that it buys is allowing injection in a standardized format on > interfaces in any mode. Currently the fact that a TX packet comes on a > Monitor Mode interface is used to infer the format of it, that it will > have a radiotap header. That's not too ugly, but allowing > injection/radiotap format packets to be accepted on any interface in any > mode (eg, Master) and to use an ethhdr to determine the structure of the > packet is a bit more general and clean, since that is the job of the > ethhdr everywhere. The real question IMHO is if we actually want that. And I don't think we'll find an easy solution for say the qdisc dropping the packet before we see it. > It'll be interesting to see what the genuine primitives are for the MLME > after you are finished ejecting the ioctl type cruft. I don't have much > idea of what is truly needed as it stands. I think I'm pretty much done killing all the currently unused ioctls. Jouni's mail contained a short overview that seemed fairly complete though lacking details. johannes
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
