Re: wireless: recap of current issues (stack)
From: Johannes Berg
Date: Fri Jan 13 2006 - 17:33:05 EST
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 17:22 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> Can the in-kernel stack be saved? With the addition of softmac?
> Is it possible to extend softmac to support virtual wlan devices?
> If not, how do we proceed?
Well, softmac doesn't really have too many issues [that make it
incompatible with the planned stuff, that is]. Right now it layers
above ieee80211_device, and it would continue doing so, with
ieee80211_device transformed into the representation of the virtual STA
device.
johannes
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