On Tue, 2 May 2006 14:18:17 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > Add a configuration option for disabling client MLME in kernel > code. This is used to enable user space MLME for client mode (e.g., > with wpa_supplicant). The kernel MLME implementation is unmodified, > but it could be removed or at least made optional in build > configuration in the future.
It is too early for this. We need to implement some better communication interface between kernel and hostapd (or what will implement userspace MLME) first. The current solution, where there is some special net_device interface (wmaster0ap) abused to dump informations to userspace, is ugly and confusing for users. There is no userspace MLME implementation yet. And if one is going to be written, I'm really convinced it should be written in a clean way. I think Simon said he would examine a possibility to convert this stuff to netlink - is there some progress there? Also, I'm not sure how fullmac cards could be (potentially) supported with this approach. Thanks, Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
