On Feb 1, 2008 2:42 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > cfg80211/nl80211 is no further for fullmac drivers than a year ago, all > work it got so far is for hostapd. > > I have a fairly decent plan how to add association/... support but it > lacks execution because it's completely boring work that doesn't buy us > any new features since we still have to support wext. > Security setting is a bit broken. There is a missing separation between static and dynamic./WPA wep keys. > > 802.11n - do we need any discussion here or is it just a question of > > executing on the current plan? > I think with the last patchset from Ron it's mostly done, cleanups still > to do and probably QoS improvements (I'm thinking multiqueue netdevs > here) Multiqueue and AP mode support is planed. AP mode requires changes in configuration interface (cfg, wext) and hostapd. > > 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? > > Nobody is working on this, but a good part is done since hostapd works > and the userspace MLME needs many of the same features. Again, the > biggest thing is cfg80211/nl80211 support, setting a device to userspace > MLME mode and implementing the communication. > > johannes > - 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
