Re: wireless: recap of current issues (other issues)

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

On 1/14/06, David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:09:23 -0500
>
> > A big open issue:  should you fake ethernet, or represent 802.11
> > natively throughout the rest of the net stack?
> >
> > The former causes various and sundry hacks, and the latter requires that
> > you touch a bunch of non-802.11 code to make it aware of a new frame class.
>
> The former, most importantly, can cause the packet to get copied.
> Actually, this depends upon how you implement things and when the
> header change occurs.
>
> My vote is for making the whole of the networking 802.11 frame class
> aware.

Agreed :-)

- Arnaldo
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