From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757487AbYIIERA (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:17:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756013AbYIIEPz (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:15:55 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45623 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751842AbYIIEPy (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:15:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080908.211548.216826057.davem@davemloft.net> To: j@w1.fi Cc: jouni.malinen@atheros.com, alex.williamson@hp.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080909040525.GA26151@hostap.isc.org> References: <20080909025525.GB25148@hostap.isc.org> <20080908.204323.04156464.davem@davemloft.net> <20080909040525.GA26151@hostap.isc.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jouni Malinen Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:05:25 -0700 > Would people be fine with extending wireless_send_event() with new > event types that use fixed sized fields or is someone going to be > interesting in providing a better replacement for this > functionality? I thought this was the idea behind nl80211? To be a new netlink interface for wireless, one that actually is designed correctly from the start and thus can avoid all of these problems.