cvs commit: src/sys/net route.h rtsock.c

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:58:52PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:50 pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Sam Leffler <sam at FreeBSD.org> [041005 12:48] wrote:
> > > sam         2004-10-05 19:48:33 UTC
> > >
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/net              route.h rtsock.c
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add 802.11-specific events that are dispatched through the routing
> > > socket. This really doesn't belong here but is preferred (for the moment)
> > > over adding yet another mechanism for sending msgs from the kernel to
> > > user apps.
> >
> > I think one of these days it would be cool to be able to make a general
> > message socket, then ioctl a filter down onto it.
> 
> It would be good to unify/generalize some of this stuff.  Warner pointed out 
> devd has it's own mechanism (I'd forgot) and he intentionally avoided routing 
> sockets because he wasn't sure there was enough overlap.
> 
> For now this is a simple set of changes that will enable bringing over WPA 
> support and fixing dhclient once I can complete the backport of the net80211 
> mods.

Great!  Once that's done I can try to get WPA going in pff(4).

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