On Tuesday 27 June 2006 15:54, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I think a lof of people will be happy with this patch. Is it because the 
> netdev guys have not released a kind of "injection stack" that you don't want 
> to make this patch go upstream, or because it implies a lot of possible 
> hackings with this patch enabled ?

This patch is:
* A Dirty Hack (tm)
* Wrong
* implemented one level too low
* whatever. Put some abuse here.

If packet injection is desired, it should be implemented in the
802.11 stack (devicescape, perhaps).
The drivers should not have to care, if the packet came from real
network traffic, or was injected. It should just transmit it.

So, if we want packet injection, we should implement it at the
netdev level perhaps. I dunno what is best, but maybe an additional
type of virtual netdev. Maybe it can be done through the master
netdev. I don't know.

If someone wants to have packet injection, go for it. Implement
it. I don't need it, so it is on my virtual TODO list at almost
last position. And my TODO list is long. ;)

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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