On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 18:02 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 04:25:00PM -0600, Dan Williams wrote: > > > At this point it's a more modern driver than the ones already in the > > > kernel, and I'm willing to maintain it if there's a point to doing so. > > > > What's the delta in device support between prism2_usb and the hostap > > driver's USB subdriver? Is there any overlap? > > Given that there never was a hostap_usb, there's no overlap at all. If > you have a prism2.5/3 USB widget, you'll need prism2_usb to make it more > than a lousy paperweight. Sorry, I see now I meant orinico_usb, not hostap... Dan > Way back in the day I'd advocated for doing a USB port of hostap rather > than mainlining prism2_usb, strictly on a ROI basis, but the boots on > the ground chose the latter. Given that prism2_usb has slowly been > improved since then and hostap has largely been ignored, IMO the right > thing here is to get it out of staging by taking care of any outstanding > problems. > > On a strict feature basis, hostap has the advantage of supporting AP > operation and WPA -- For the latter, prism2_usb just needs the cfg80211 > and crypto layer hooks since it needs to be handled in software anyway. > As for AP operation -- Intersil never officially supported AP mode on > the USB devices, and while it worked unofficially, it wasn't terribly > stable. The same stabilitiy problems plagued monitor operation; my > theory at the time was that their USB "glue" silicon simply couldn't > keep up with the load. > > - Solomon -- 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
