Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:16 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

> OK, I'm going to ask a stupid question.  Why is the kernel<->wireless
> driver interface have to be tied to the userspace<->wireless
> interface?  

Haha. Because Jean thinks it isn't and thus everything is fine. But in
reality it is.

> Is there some reason why this would be too hard to do with the current
> interface?  

Yes: drivers are expected to mostly handle the ioctls directly without a
layer between them and userspace.

> Or is the arguement that if you're going to invest that
> much energy in fixing the userspace interface code, you would rather
> go to d80211/nl80211?

cfg80211 and nl80211 actually do this abstraction, nl80211 gets requests
and rewrites them to cfg80211 structures that are passed to the driver.
I have plans for wext/cfg80211 compat code, essentially replacing the
interface between the drivers and wext by cfg80211 and letting userspace
not even be aware of it.

johannes
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