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Jouni Malinen wrote: > The first thing I would like to see is an addition to Linux wireless > extensions for WPA/WPA2 so that we can get rid of the private ioctls in > the drivers. Even though these can often be similar, it would be nice to > just write one driver interface code in wpa_supplicant and have it > working with all Linu drivers.. I hope to find some time to write a > proposal for this. One of the things that is nice about wireless-2.6 is that is affords the opportunity to totally rethink the wireless extensions. Although a lot of people would howl, since HostAP is essentially new code from the mainline kernel perspective, a new userland API (and new or updated tools) could come along with it. I have mentioned in the past (no offense Jean!) that I do not like the overly-generic wireless handler structure. It is less type-safe than is generally preferred in Linux, IMO. A low-level wireless driver should not implement ioctls, it should implement callbacks in some sort of 'struct wireless_operations' as is done in other kernel subsystems. ioctl details should be hidden from low-level drivers as much as possible, through type-safe interfaces. Strive to make both the wireless driver API and the wireless userland API easy to change and evolve over time. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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