Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46990 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756731AbZDSOF0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:05:26 -0400 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:05:23 +0200 From: "Alina Friedrichsen" In-Reply-To: <1240148519.898.3.camel@johannes.local> Message-ID: <20090419140523.158830@gmx.net> (sfid-20090419_160530_514781_26A1B0A0) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1240094996.21583.1.camel@johannes.local> (sfid-20090419_005015_625875_1781AFCD) <1240097845.25826.1.camel@johannes.local> <20090419125212.158800@gmx.net> (sfid-20090419_145246_566920_BF082D12) <1240147050.25826.5.camel@johannes.local> <20090419133544.158820@gmx.net> (sfid-20090419_153615_967882_D1A9F951) <1240148519.898.3.camel@johannes.local> Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API To: Johannes Berg Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hallo Johannes! > Huh? No, it does not mostly do the same. Quite not so. Managed and IB= SS > modes are _really_ different. Almost the only thing they have in comm= on > is that they use an SSID and a BSSID. A character device is not the same as a block device too but it uses th= e same API like normal files. Thats the deference to DOS. And assoc() i= s the equivalent for join_ibss(), like read() or write() it can impleme= nted with the same interface. In WEXT it's implemented with the same in= terface. > And an airy concept of "UNIX philosophy" really has nothing whatsoeve= r > to do with it. Unfortunately I don't have the book "Modern Operating Systems" here so = I can't quote it. Regards Alina --=20 Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonansc= hluss f=FCr nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dslspecial.gmx.de/freedsl-surf= flat/?ac=3DOM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html