On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:17 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > This is still somewhat open, but at minimum, there needs to be a > mechanism for receiving and sending management frames from user space. > d80211 uses a "management netdev" for this currently (the same one that > was used before with hostapd for AP mode). In addition to that, > wpa_supplicant expect to be able to read list of support channels and TX > rates (get_hw_feature_data handler in driver wrapper) and to be able to > add and remove STA entries (e.g., for TX rate control and association > status validation in kernel code).
Right. > Currently, scanning is done simply by setting the channel with > SIOCSIWFREQ and listening for management frames. However, the goal is to > provide simple atomic operations that user space programs can request > the kernel code to do. This would cover not only scanning, but also some > other needs like IEEE 802.11k radio measurements. These operations could > be something like "stop transmit, move to channel 5, report received > management frames, record noise level, do this for 5 ms, return to > operational channel, enable transmit". Yeah, we talked about that. I suppose softmac will never support the current interface, we'll just design a new one and use that. johannes
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