Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless] | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:25:51 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 17:12 +0100, Feyd wrote: > 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.
We thought about that for a while, but it may not be feasible. Certain hardware that manages more stuff than others in firmware/hardware may not allow sending raw frames without going into some special mode, which is better handled by adding some kind of raw virtual device.
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