[PATCH] change detection of wireless

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 16:32 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> > I added also some code to add some keys to IrDA net devices and to avoid 
> > adding ARPHRD_IEEE80211 (IEEE 802.11 headers), ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM and  
> > ARPHRD_IEEE80211_RADIOTAP devices which are IMO useless and shouldn't be 
> > visible for the user.
> 
> Those interfaces are definitely not useless. They allow you to capture
> raw 802.11 frames which can be used by tools like Ethereal, Kismet and
> others.

But I think they should be marked differently so network management
tools like nm won't try to use them. Maybe the capability should be
802.11capture or something.

johannes