On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:09:23PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> >Other Issues
> >============
>
> A big open issue: should you fake ethernet, or represent 802.11
> natively throughout the rest of the net stack?
>
> The former causes various and sundry hacks, and the latter requires that
> you touch a bunch of non-802.11 code to make it aware of a new frame class.
I had this entry in the "compatibility" section:
We need to be an 802.11 stack (i.e. drivers need to handle 802.11
frames). Ethernet emulation is bound to paint us into a corner
eventually (if it hasn't already)
My opinion is that we need to 'bite the bullet' and make the kernel
aware of 802.11. I figure we can leverage some existing work by
davem and acme for this.
John
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