Subject: Re: [PATCH] wext

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:06:13 +0200

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 12:56 +0200, [email-masked] wrote:

> no really, the problem is that "my" hardware (aka: prism54 fullmac) does all 
> the mac-management, encryption/decryption, AP-Management,... in the firmware. 
> And all "management" operation are wrapped into a simple unique 
> 4-byte "Operation ID"... That's why the WEXT "would be better" for that 
> thing...
> 
> (Or, do I mix everything up and nl80211 has "nothing" to do with devicescape's 
> networkstack d80211?)

Yes, nl80211 is not tied to d80211, it simply provides a new way of
doing configuration.

johannes