Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:58:52 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net route.h rtsock.c Message-ID: <200410051258.52855.sam@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20041005195059.GN13443@elvis.mu.org> References: <200410051948.i95JmXjG070368@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041005195059.GN13443@elvis.mu.org>
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On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:50 pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org> [041005 12:48] wrote: > > sam 2004-10-05 19:48:33 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > sys/net route.h rtsock.c > > Log: > > Add 802.11-specific events that are dispatched through the routing > > socket. This really doesn't belong here but is preferred (for the moment) > > over adding yet another mechanism for sending msgs from the kernel to > > user apps. > > I think one of these days it would be cool to be able to make a general > message socket, then ioctl a filter down onto it. It would be good to unify/generalize some of this stuff. Warner pointed out devd has it's own mechanism (I'd forgot) and he intentionally avoided routing sockets because he wasn't sure there was enough overlap. For now this is a simple set of changes that will enable bringing over WPA support and fixing dhclient once I can complete the backport of the net80211 mods. Sam
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