On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 07:03:59PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:19:40AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > > + linux-wireless > > > > "Tobin C. Harding" <me@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 09:58:51AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > >> > > >> > The code is untested, I have hardware in the mail. > > >> > > >> Cool! > > > > > > The card I have is a Spectec FCC ID: S2Y-WLAN-11B-G which I believe is > > > a SDW-823 and should use the ks7010 driver. I am going to attempt to > > > get it running on a Raspberry Pi B+. I ordered the wrong size break > > > out board originally so waiting on the new one now. > > > > > >> > > >> > If any one is interested and has any comments I would really like to > > >> > hear them. I am open to all suggestions (even down to trivial coding > > >> > style issues). > > >> > > >> I'll just repeat that the key move to get this driver out of staging is > > >> to get away from the WEXT interface to CFG80211. Otherwise no chance > > >> that wireless maintainers will even look at it. This is a huge change > > >> but once it is done, features like Michael MIC come with it for free > > >> (from what I recall, I am not a wireless expert myself). > > > > > > That would explain why I could not find more than the Orinoco driver > > > using the Michael MIC module directly. > > > > I think cfg80211 and mac80211 got mixed up. mac80211 (the full IEEE > > 802.11 stack for "softmac" devices) provides Michael MIC implementation, > > but cfg80211 (for "hardmac" devices) does not. > > Cool, thanks for clarifying. Hilariously I was just sitting down > trying to figure out what was up after a day spent trying to merge > ideas from ath6kl (fullmac) and ks7010. I finally spent some time > reading the cw1200 driver (softmac) for further inspiration. As an example of a driver that has been moved from an internal wireless stack to using the kernel stack is the vt6655 driver. I think it's the only driver that has done this type of transition, so look at the patch history of it for an example of what to do. good luck! greg k-h
