netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11144] New: dhcp doesn't work with iwl4965

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:45:26 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	francois.valenduc@...ablenet.be, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linville@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11144] New: dhcp doesn't work with iwl4965

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 14:35 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:

> >> Isn't this time to make 802.11 native?
> >
> >
> > You mean by making these things real skb members? I hope you're
> > not talking about the entire 48 bytes? :)
> 
> I mean elevating 802.11 header to 802.3 level. Not doing 802.3 ->
> 802.11 translation where not needed.


We've discussed that over and over and over and over again, and it's not
going to fly since 802.11 throughout assumes that you have a two-address
data service to the upper layers.

Besides, making it 802.11 native doesn't help with the control
information at all.

johannes

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (837 bytes)