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

[Sam Leffler]

On Tuesday 05 October 2004 01:01 pm, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> 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).

Not sure how pfil comes in here.  For WPA I intended to bring over Jouni 
Malinen's wpa_supplicant and hostapd.  Both work with the net80211 layer on 
Linux (with the Atheros driver) and both should be straightforward to make 
work on FreeBSD once the net80211 code is updated.  pfil isn't anywhere to be 
seen in this...

	Sam