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Additional 802.11 net stack code posted

DISCUSSION Jeff Garzik 2 participants 2 messages Jun 3, 2004 – Jun 4, 2004

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One of things that a proper "802.11 stack" should be is tie closely into the core net stack, so that translation to/from 802.3 isn't going on all the time. One wants to create, receive, and "understand" native 802.11 frames, and provide a sane management infrastructure.

To that end, I ask that wireless hackers please study stub 802.11 code that DaveM wrote, posted at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/davem-p80211.tar.bz2

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Quoted 4 lines · Jeff Garzik

One of things that a proper "802.11 stack" should be is tie closely into the core net stack, so that translation to/from 802.3 isn't going on all the time. One wants to create, receive, and "understand" native 802.11 frames, and provide a sane management infrastructure.

Yes, indeed. When working outside the kernel tree, it was somewhat difficult to do this kind of changes, but this is certainly one of my goals, too, and now would be a good time to get the implementation together.

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To that end, I ask that wireless hackers please study stub 802.11 code that DaveM wrote

Thanks! I will need to do some experimenting with this code, so this will take some time. Based on the quick browse through the files, there are number of things I have been missing before..

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