On Jan 16, 2008 4:58 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I just took the time to adjust hostapd to the new nl80211-based hardware > capabilities exporting (patch I recently posted) and it "works" again. > > The todo list now pretty much is: > > * bring Michael Wu's "cooked" monitor patches to a suitable shape for > merging and write iw(1) support for monitor flags; the cooked monitor > hook shouldn't be in the RX handlers to allow seeing frames that > other handlers dropped > * remove 802.1X setting, 802.1X need never be disabled on an AP because > it can be completely managed by hostapd > * allow hostapd to set the 'basic' and 'supported' rate sets > * allow hostapd to set QoS queue parameters > * allow hostapd to set ERP parameters: > - RTS/CTS protection > - preamble > - slot time > * make kernel send events via nl80211 (TKIP MMIC, key threshold, ...) > * make hostapd deal with such kernel events by using libnl properly > with an ops list > * implement regulatory domain control kernel/userspace API > * make hostapd use that API, it wants to be in control of regulatory > compliance rather than relying on an external daemon Well we need regulatory daemon of some sort for non-AP hosts. I was considering throwing this as part of wpa_supplicant/hostapd code. I guess we'll see. > I hope Luis will work on the last two items, and I personally want to > handle only the first two items. All others on the list are up for > grabs. ACK -- I will. Luis - 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
