On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:58:28 +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote: > I see a third problem - the in kernel protocols. Just do a quick fgrep -r > ARPHRD_ over linux/net and you'll see what I mean. While moving away from the > ethernet emulation, we have to touch a bunch of protocols, even ones we > possibly cannot test, e.g. decnet. Even though I don't like the ethernet > emulation hack, I'm not sure if it is worth the pain just to be able to show > up as a real 802.11 device.
I think this is manageable. We need real 802.11 devices - all of frames, including management ones, end up in one queue (in one net_device). And we are not able to do Ethernet->802.11 conversion then, because we don't know how (and storing pointer to originating net_device or so in cb is not a solution, as the device can go away while the frame is queued). Also management frames with Ethernet headers are a bit hard to imagine. -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
