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    SubjectRe: wireless: recap of current issues (stack)
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    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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