Prism GT/Indigo/Duette linux drivers available

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:32:11PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:

> There are tradeoffs to using a user-space only process for handling 
> management frames.

Yes, there are both benefits and drawbacks. I find it nicer way of
developing the management side and in most cases IEEE 802.11 timing or
CPU load requirements for management frames are not too big of an issue.
Anyway, it might be useful to define mechanism that would allow moving
some parts (like 802.11 auth/assoc) to kernel driver or hardware (in
case of something like Prism2 with AP firmware) and use only IEEE 802.1X
Authenticator (etc. higher level management) in user space.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA