questions regarding removing the depencency on CONFIG_IEEE80211

[Johannes Berg]

> 7. RADIOTAP
> 
> Libertas contains lot's of code for it's monitoring mode, which 
> uses radiotap. It used "struct net_device *rtap_net_dev" 
> and "struct ieee80211_device *ieee". It contains code like
> 
>    priv->rtap_net_dev = alloc_ieee80211(0);
>    priv->ieee = netdev_priv(priv->rtap_net_dev);
> 
> and I don't have any knowledge about radiotap and how to 
> substitue the alloc_ieee80211(). All I could currently to is to 
> put those sections into #ifdef CONFIG_IEEE80211.

You don't really need a ieee80211 interface for radiotap, look how
mac80211 does it, it's a simple netdev with the right arp header. You
don't need to provide anything like wext on it if you don't wish to.

johannes
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