Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:01:15 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net route.h rtsock.c Message-ID: <20041005200115.GA47017@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <200410051258.52855.sam@errno.com> References: <200410051948.i95JmXjG070368@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041005195059.GN13443@elvis.mu.org> <200410051258.52855.sam@errno.com>
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:58:52PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:50 pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Sam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org> [041005 12:48] wrote: > > > sam 2004-10-05 19:48:33 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > > > Modified files: > > > sys/net route.h rtsock.c > > > Log: > > > Add 802.11-specific events that are dispatched through the routing > > > socket. This really doesn't belong here but is preferred (for the moment) > > > over adding yet another mechanism for sending msgs from the kernel to > > > user apps. > > > > I think one of these days it would be cool to be able to make a general > > message socket, then ioctl a filter down onto it. > > It would be good to unify/generalize some of this stuff. Warner pointed out > devd has it's own mechanism (I'd forgot) and he intentionally avoided routing > sockets because he wasn't sure there was enough overlap. > > For now this is a simple set of changes that will enable bringing over WPA > support and fixing dhclient once I can complete the backport of the net80211 > mods. Great! Once that's done I can try to get WPA going in pff(4). -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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