The purpose of the wlap0ap or wlap0mgmt interface is to communicate between hostapd/wpa_supplicant and the kernel. What travels over this interface is not quite pure 802.11 management frames - there is some meta-data with each frame, and a few special case messages. E.G. transmitted frames are returned back to user space to indicate successful transmission (required so that the MLME state machine can be correctly implemented in user space). I believe these messages form a special management protocol between the kernel and user space, and that netlink would be the best solution for this link. Switching to netlink would allow these bogus 'network' interfaces to be removed alltogether. Unfortunately I don't currently have the time to put together a patch to do this.
Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johannes Berg Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 7:04 AM To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jouni Malinen; Jiri Benc Subject: Re: wlan#ap seems bogus Johannes Berg wrote: > Hence, I think it ought to be named 'wlan#mgmt' instead. I see it's actually called wmgmt# now. Sorry. The rest of this mail still holds though. johannes - 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 - 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
