On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 04:20:15PM +0100, Henning Rogge wrote: > Am Mittwoch 14 November 2007 16:08:39 schrieben Sie: > > What is the situation that makes this interesting to you? > I'm not interested in having a binary driver but in simulation of mobile > networks with virtual machines. By placing a virtual driver into the mac80211 > layer the sollution would be totally transparent for the clients, even for > applications with Radiotap headers and Libpcap. > A central server would be connected to the userspace parts of the virtual > driver and simulate connections between the VMs. Even better -- a completely legitimate use for such a feature. :-) Such a driver might also serve as a development tool for the mac80211 stack developers, and as a model for how drivers should behave when interacting with mac80211. In fact, I think Johannes Berg submitted this to the Kernel Newbies project suggestions already: http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/Mac80211TestDriver So, any aspiring wireless/kernel hackers out there? John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
