Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostapd: use nl80211 instead of prism ioctls to create  interfaces
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:55:16 +0200
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On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 15:42 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> > This is making it a bit difficult to build driver_devicescape.c and sam=
e
> > goes for the requirement for svn trunk version of libnl.. Any idea how
> > much code from libnl is needed here? Would it be major effort to do the
> > needed calls without having to rely on libnl at or (or at least not on
> > an unreleased svn trunk version)?
>=20
> There's a whole bunch of code in libnl I use, all the generic netlink
> family resolving etc. Maybe Thomas can prerelease a libnl with generic
> netlink support?

Also, since this affects git trees only... To use this you actually have
to have hostap git, wireless-dev git so what's the big deal with
requiring libnl svn? :)

johannes

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