Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751599AbWAFQMI (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:12:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751576AbWAFQMH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:12:07 -0500 Received: from smtp.seznam.cz ([212.80.76.43]:11605 "HELO smtp.seznam.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751545AbWAFQMG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:12:06 -0500 Message-ID: <43BE96DA.1020107@seznam.cz> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:12:10 +0100 From: Feyd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Buesch CC: Marcel Holtmann , jgarzik@pobox.com, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless] References: <1136541243.4037.18.camel@localhost> <200601061200.59376.mbuesch@freenet.de> <1136547494.7429.72.camel@localhost> <200601061245.55978.mbuesch@freenet.de> In-Reply-To: <200601061245.55978.mbuesch@freenet.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 732 Lines: 18 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/