On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 17:22 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > Can the in-kernel stack be saved? With the addition of softmac? > Is it possible to extend softmac to support virtual wlan devices? > If not, how do we proceed? Well, softmac doesn't really have too many issues [that make it incompatible with the planned stuff, that is]. Right now it layers above ieee80211_device, and it would continue doing so, with ieee80211_device transformed into the representation of the virtual STA device. johannes
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