Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:23:29 -0200 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: wireless: recap of current issues (other issues) |
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On 1/14/06, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> > Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:09:23 -0500 > > > A big open issue: should you fake ethernet, or represent 802.11 > > natively throughout the rest of the net stack? > > > > The former causes various and sundry hacks, and the latter requires that > > you touch a bunch of non-802.11 code to make it aware of a new frame class. > > The former, most importantly, can cause the packet to get copied. > Actually, this depends upon how you implement things and when the > header change occurs. > > My vote is for making the whole of the networking 802.11 frame class > aware.
Agreed :-)
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