On 01/01/15 11:56, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
Arend van Spriel wrote:
On 12/31/14 16:14, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
[...]
All in all:
If you want to get rid of wext, you still have to go a *very* long way
to get the same *stable* and high throughput quality with *all* chips
depending on mac80211 and not just a few flagship drivers like Atheros.
Hi Andreas,
That's a nice list of unrelated stuff. This has all nothing to do with
WEXT. Actually, you can build rt5572sta with cfg80211 support
(RT_CFG80211_SUPPORT).
You seem to know sources I don't know off. Could you please tell me,
where to find them?
I have DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.0.1_20120629 which doesn't compile with
HAS_CFG80211_SUPPORT=y because -DCONFIG_AP_SUPPORT, on which
RT_CFG80211_SUPPORT relies, is broken.
DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.1.3_20121022 removed the necessary broken AP
code completely.
Nice.
This thread is about the configuration API and
not about driver performance.
I know.
I tried to show, why WEXT as a whole is still necessary even if there is
a mac80211 based driver, because of the weakness of rt2800usb:
Nip it in the bud.
Yes. WEXT needs to stay for a while. Not arguing that. Just saying this
is really about cfg80211 providing "WEXT compatibility" so WEXT
user-space apps can interact with cfg80211-based drivers and how to come
up with a plan to phase out "WEXT compatibility", not WEXT.
Regards,
Arend
Kind regards,
Andreas
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