Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:42:11 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net route.h rtsock.c Message-ID: <20041005214211.GD47017@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <200410051434.00233.sam@errno.com> References: <200410051948.i95JmXjG070368@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041005200115.GA47017@green.homeunix.org> <200410051419.47175.sam@errno.com> <200410051434.00233.sam@errno.com>
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:33:59PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:19 pm, Sam Leffler wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 01:01 pm, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:58:52PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > Great! Once that's done I can try to get WPA going in pff(4). > > > > Not sure how pfil comes in here. For WPA I intended to bring over Jouni > > Malinen's wpa_supplicant and hostapd. Both work with the net80211 layer on > > Linux (with the Atheros driver) and both should be straightforward to make > > work on FreeBSD once the net80211 code is updated. pfil isn't anywhere to > > be seen in this... > > Sigh, guess I need a larger font or new glasses; I see you wrote "pff" and not > "pfil". Presumably this is your prism54 driver. FWIW the only thing keeping > me from committing the new net80211 code is that the wi driver needs some > TLC. If you could help with that then everything would be in the tree for > pff. Okay, I have the older net80211 alpha-snapshot you sent out, which I tested, but found a bit broken in places, so if you send me the latest I am pretty familiar with the wi(4) driver and will certainly help out. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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