On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:09:23PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >Other Issues > >============ > > 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.
I had this entry in the "compatibility" section: We need to be an 802.11 stack (i.e. drivers need to handle 802.11 frames). Ethernet emulation is bound to paint us into a corner eventually (if it hasn't already) My opinion is that we need to 'bite the bullet' and make the kernel aware of 802.11. I figure we can leverage some existing work by davem and acme for this. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
