On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:25 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > Greetings, > > It looks as if we have a few venue options for a third wireless summit. > While this may seem like a luxury, none of the options are perfect > for everyone and each has it's own potential drawbacks. So rather > than move blindly forward with any given venue, I think it would be > good to discuss some potential agenda points. > > This will serve both to determine who is most interested in attending > a summit and who might most need to be there. This will also serve > to justify the trouble of having a summit at all. So, I'd like to > open the 'floor' to discussion proposals. > > What discussions pertinent to Linux wireless development do > you want to see? What can you contribute to those discussions? > How would a face-to-face discussion of that issue be better than an > online discussion? cfg80211/nl80211 - overview, get Johannes to disseminate knowledge because email isn't optimal for this. I haven't had enough time to jump into it yet, but the fact that Johannes is the vast majority of the effort here is worrisome. Having a reference implementation (airo, atmel, maybe libertas) of a fullmac driver ported to cfg80211 would probably be very useful, even just to get a sense of how the API works. rfkill - how to clean up the mess, including how it's all supposed to work from userspace with kernel bits, ACPI bits, vendor modules like asus_acpi and dellWirelessCtl, input-only buttons, etc WiMAX - what hardware is coming, what the APIs should look like (OMA-DM is likely to be part of Sprint's stack for XOHM), what the driver situation is, and how to fend off a repeat of the 802.11 regulatory situation for WiMAX (most parts are apparently fullmac right now, but softmac will surely come). 802.11s - nail down issues that Javier/Luis/others might have and try to push the 802.11s mesh stack forward (driver issues, API issues, etc) 802.11n - do we need any discussion here or is it just a question of executing on the current plan? Userspace MLME - what's going on here? Noise around this seems to be quieter these days. Is stuff going according to plan/schedule or are there roadblocks? lib80211/fullmac - maybe this just needs to be picked up and done by somebody and doesn't need any discussion or whatever 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
