On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:30:34PM +0100, feyd wrote: > The point of the master not being netdev is to separate the two > functions it serves - configuration and master interface, as combining > them makes sense only for softmac devices. > The single queue that all the packets have to pass and can be sheduled > is the raw/rfmon device. > > phy0 # not netdev, represents rather the radio > *->ap0 # no qdisc > *->sta0 # -//- > *->raw0 # qdisc
This should also let use use raw0 to write packets from userspace in a consistent format (and this means the drivers will have to do some work in some cases if they don't match the 'consistent format'.) Right now I've been working on a userspace library to do common tx, because of the 5 or so drivers that I know support it, many have their own quirks about what they can do and how they format things (3addr, 4addr, different endians on the same host, etc). I also think some sort of ioctl to get the feature set of the rawX device would be good -- some can't inject all frames, some override sequence/bsstimestamp, etc, and we need to know this from userspace for some applications. I *suppose* we could even include endian formats in that, but I don't know that userspace ought to be dealing with endian flipping for a specific card type. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Unfortunately, for most people, that reaction is illiteracy."
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