ath (AR9280) with nanoBSD (fwd)

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Fri Jul 1 09:39:47 UTC 2016


On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 07:54:52 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:

 > It was to remove the wifi interface from needing to be an ifnet interface,
 > complete with the locking and lifecycle management.
 > 
 > Now the net80211 physical interfaces don't have to pretend to be normal
 > network interfaces. Which is good in the long run as there's a whole bunch
 > of functionality to implement that doesn't map cleanly to ifnet.
 > 
 > A

Ok, thanks for the clarification.  Too much time behind the 8-ball, me.

cheers, Ian


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