Return-path: Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:51451 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752521AbXFVPjl (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:39:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:39:40 +0200 From: Jiri Benc To: Andy Green Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [WIP] mac80211: kill mgmt interface Message-ID: <20070622173940.30280046@griffin.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <467BDCB1.1010604@warmcat.com> References: <1182418939.10821.8.camel@johannes.berg> <20070621143558.68fc8e4a@griffin.suse.cz> <1182429920.21939.1.camel@johannes.berg> <20070621151441.500d62d5@griffin.suse.cz> <20070622154545.29eeebdb@griffin.suse.cz> <467BDCB1.1010604@warmcat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:29:05 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > But for any nontrivial use, you need to capture RX and not blindly > inject, and so you have a monitor mode interface up anyway. No, why? You can encapsulate received management frames (only the ones that need to go to user space or so) in the same way and send them through the regular interface. Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs