On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 10:56 +, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Yes, that is exatly the right way to go forward. The userspace interface
> is however more than just the WE ioctls. It's also that for every wireless
> card one single ethX device appears and not multiple devices with other
> names.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:49:01AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I've said this like a dozen times but apparently it
> hasn't sunk in yet:
>
> The latest cfg80211/nl80211 code comes with WE compatibility code that
> users can disable if they want to, which, however, gives them the
Johannes Berg wrote:
My goal is to remove WE from *all* drivers, even from the ancient
pre-802.11 and early 802.11 fullmac drivers, and leave WE merely as
another userspace interface for cfg80211, albeit with limitations that
the netlink interface nl80211 doesn't have.
Sounds good to me...
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 21:55 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Speaking specifically, Linus noted recently d80211 should maintain
> backwards compatibility with the WE userspace ABI, so that existing
> wireless tools keep working, and I definitely agree. For additional
> functionality/flexibility, I
