[clearview-discuss] 2008/242 Data Fast-Path for Softmac

[Paul Durrant]

> On 14/04/2008, Cathy Zhou <Cathy.Zhou at sun.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > Having them appear here means that the implementor of any MAC driver
>  > needs to understand whether or not they should implement those
>  > functions. Is there a way we can avoid them having to think about it
>  > given that only softmac will ever need to use this?
>  >
>
> It is not true. Only a GLDv3 driver which supports MAC_CAPAB_LEGACY capability
>  needs to implement those callbacks, and softmac is the only GLDv3 driver
>  capable of MAC_CAPAB_LEGACY.
>

Would it perhaps be possible to make softmac a plug type of its own
(mac_dlpi?) and then allow there to be type specific entry points? I'm
sure there are probably other mac module <-> driver interactions that
only make sense for a subset of media types.

 Paul

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