Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:45447 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932190AbXDLJFp (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:05:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] Add basic support for IEEE 802.11n discovery and association From: Johannes Berg To: Andy Green Cc: Tomas Winkler , Simon Barber , Michael Wu , mabbas , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen In-Reply-To: <461DF586.6050009@warmcat.com> References: <1174909105.1364.53.camel@dell-4965.jf.intel.com> <20070411194059.GA2436@tuxdriver.com> <461D3F48.70004@linux.intel.com> <200704111630.06160.flamingice@sourmilk.net> <1ba2fa240704111503l6dcef504na73c997ae75ebccd@mail.gmail.com> <1ba2fa240704111605l305230d3vf09c085473364eb3@mail.gmail.com> <461D6E4F.6060401@warmcat.com> <1176368209.7052.10.camel@johannes.berg> <461DF586.6050009@warmcat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7HOBx3QgcRmva90sUgLs" Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:06:46 +0200 Message-Id: <1176368806.7052.15.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-7HOBx3QgcRmva90sUgLs Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:01 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Just curious, why is that evil? It seems if the usermode MLME is=20 > interested in what are basically Out Of Band 1Mbps management packets=20 > that share the same air as the payload packets and so appear on Monitor=20 > mode interfaces, then a local OOB class of packet doesn't break such new=20 > ground. And it does neatly fit the communication semantic already used. Oh but those aren't *really* fake then. In this case, I'm ambivalent, but the stuff we have in there for some things like radar notification is just ugly. johannes --=-7HOBx3QgcRmva90sUgLs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGHfam/ETPhpq3jKURAqyuAJ9Q/6k9I9dsjoQUfYvNjRlV3PilJgCfaKeb OWrwZ/UlkYhw7gkmzWDgP6I= =FLPK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7HOBx3QgcRmva90sUgLs--