On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:37 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Earlier filtering makes sense, especially for userspace. The other > part exceeds my wireless knowledge :)
No worries. I'll see if I can come up with a way to do earlier filtering, but it's not actually required for the functionality. And the discussion in the wireless realm still isn't over. > > No actually having that hook means I can do without multicast groups by > > just publishing that "send configuration requests to pid N" where N is > > either 0 (in-kernel MLME) or something else (userspace MLME); I just > > didn't know the hook existed. > > > Even better. Publishing that to userspace is going to be racy though. I could instead have userspace always send message to 0 and just redirect them to the userspace process if present; will have to look into it. That wouldn't be racy at least, but I think this race is going to be the least of your worries (if the userspace MLME just died then you have to completely re-do all configuration anyway, and if it just started the same) > The genetlink stuff defintely makes sense. I'll have a closer look at > your patches this weekend. Thanks. I know Zhang Rui will definitely appreciate that too :) johannes
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