On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:58 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > With the recent activity around cfg/nl80211 I was wondering if the > libertas people could offer some input on what configuration 802.11s > requires, or even could start specifying some preliminary nl80211 > commands for 802.11s. I only have a general idea of what sorts of configurables mesh implementations would need, unfortunately. I could probably figure that out from people that would know though. The standard is still draft though, and changing pretty heavily recently. Some things that are useful are tuning the data rates of route requests, poking the forwarding table, setting power management options etc. On the debugfs side, being able to add static mappings to the forwarding and blinding tables are nice. Looking towards 802.11s, we'll need methods to set up encryption keys between pairs of nodes and dealing with whatever authentication methods the committees come up with. > The reason I'm saying this is that I'd really like to see a full-mac > driver use cfg80211 unlike softmac drivers where only mac80211 is > involved, just to try out the APIs a bit more. And libertas seemed to be > a suitable candidate to me... Maybe some other driver would be better? I I'd like to see if we can do this too. Were I to convert some drivers, I'd start first with libertas and then do airo. They are both pretty simple. For the libertas case, the straight cfg80211 work should be done first and then we can move on to mesh-specific stuff. > personally have no full-mac hardware available nor much time/interested > right now but I'm sure some form of full-mac hardware could be made > available to interested hackers. Yes, we can give out a few Libertas USB 8388 dongles to interested parties; I've already personally given 2 to Luis to put in their testbed and sent one to Holger Schurig who's working on the CF 8385 port. We're trying to work out a more formal run of USB 8388 dongles than the "engineering samples" we're getting right now. School servers need them too, and we need something a lot more rugged than an un-canned bare PCB :) Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
