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

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 17:08:00 EST


John W. Linville wrote:
Other Issues
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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.

Jeff



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