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

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:33:59PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:19 pm, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> Sigh, guess I need a larger font or new glasses; I see you wrote "pff" and not 
> "pfil".  Presumably this is your prism54 driver.  FWIW the only thing keeping 
> me from committing the new net80211 code is that the wi driver needs some 
> TLC.  If you could help with that then everything would be in the tree for 
> pff.

Okay, I have the older net80211 alpha-snapshot you sent out, which I
tested, but found a bit broken in places, so if you send me the latest
I am pretty familiar with the wi(4) driver and will certainly help out.

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