Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:12:10 +0100 | From | Feyd <> | Subject | Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless] |
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Michael Buesch wrote: > The _real_ main point I wanted to make was to _not_ use a net_device for > the master device. What else should be used for master device, let it > be a device node or a netlink socket, is rather unimportant at > this stage.
If the only purpose of the master device was configuration, then it would be beter to use something other then a net_device, but you may want to send/receive raw 802.11 packets from userspace, most logicaly over a master interface.
Feyd
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