netdev - Re: [GIT]: Networking

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Message-Id: <20080908.211548.216826057.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:15:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	j@...fi
Cc:	jouni.malinen@...eros.com, alex.williamson@...com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking

From: Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:05:25 -0700

> Would people be fine with extending wireless_send_event() with new
> event types that use fixed sized fields or is someone going to be
> interesting in providing a better replacement for this
> functionality?

I thought this was the idea behind nl80211?  To be a new netlink
interface for wireless, one that actually is designed correctly
from the start and thus can avoid all of these problems.

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