On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:07 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> The ieee80211 layer, now present in -mm, lacks many important features
> (actually it's just a part of the ipw2100/ipw2200 driver; these cards do
> a lot of the processing in the hardware/firmware and thus the layer
> currently can not be used for simpler devices).
>
> This is the first series of patches that try to convert it to a generic
> IEEE 802.11 layer, usable for most of today's wireless cards.
>
> The long term plan is:
> - to implement a complete 802.11 stack in the kernel, making it easy to
> write drivers for simple (cheap) devices
> - to implement all of Ad-Hoc, AP and monitor modes in the layer, so it
> will be easy to support them in the drivers
> - to integrate Wireless Extensions to unify the kernel-userspace
> interface of all the drivers
Do you just clean up current ieee80211 code to still do 802.11 <-> 802.3
conversion inside the driver or you plan to handle real 802.11 frames in
the stack like this?
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-03/msg01405.html
Thanks,
-yi
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