Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:54 +0200, Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> > We might actually do that -- as part of the commands "connect" and
> > "disconnect" that do not exist yet and subsume auth and assoc into one
> > for hardware that doesn't support it.
>=20
> Why not use these commands as a high-level and mode independent
> version of assoc/join_ibss? And then simply call it from the wext
> handlers?
>=20
> "Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe"?!
> (Translation: "Kill two birds with one stone".)
>=20
> So you have a equivalent for:
> iwconfig wlan0 essid test
> iw dev wlan0 connect test

I still haven't understood why those extra commands are bothering you so
much. Anyhow, you don't _connect_ to an IBSS so that would simply be
_wrong_.


johannes

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