On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:09 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The third Linux Wireless mini-summit will occur on Tuesday July 22, > 2008 in Ottawa, just before the Ottawa Linux Symposium. OLS is > generously supporting Linux mini-summits by providing the room and > projector (http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2008/minisummits.php). > Several vendors are supporting the event by sponsoring their own > employees to attend, and Canonical and Intel have both helped with > travel funds for key community participants as well. > > Although it is already a bit late, I would like to re-open discussions > on our agenda for the meeting. Based on current upstream topics and > those persons whom I expect to be attending, I have cobbled together > an agenda proposal below. Please review it and feel free to suggest > amendments or alterations, or to elaborate or ask questions about my > proposed schedule of topics. > > I look forward to seeing many of you in Ottawa! > > John > > P.S. If you intend to attend the event in Ottawa, please send me a > private reply to this note -- even if you believe that I already know > that you are coming! :-) > > --- > > 3rd Linux Wireless Summit > Ottawa, Canada > 22 July 2008 > > Proposed Agenda > > 0830 Meet & Greet > > Introductions and opening remarks > > 0900 Status Reports > > Overview of where things stand today > > - 802.11n > > - QoS/Multiqueue > > - Mesh mode (802.11s) > > - RF kill > > 1015 Break > > 1100 Vendor/Distro Round Table > > Representatives from hardware vendors and Linux distributions > discuss issues around cooperation between themselves and the > development community, what we are doing well, and what problems we > are causing for each other. > > 1200 Lunch/Break (sorry, no funding) > > 1300 Current Work > > Short presentations/discussions about work in progress > > - encrypted management frames (802.11w) > > - regulatory enforcement (802.11d, CRDA) > > - virtual hardware (mac80211_hwsim) > > 1445 Break > > 1500 Future work > > Short presentations/discussions about work that has previously > been suggested or requested > > - cfg80211/nl80211 > - time to push to replace WEXT? > - tool enhancements and/or userland support? > > - power management (suspend/resume) > > - lib80211 (code sharing w/ full MAC drivers) > > - rate scaling algorithms > - minstrel > - others? > > - userland MLME > > - userland driver implementation > > 1645 Break > > 1700 Maintainence Issues > > Round table discussion of issues related to maintenance of > the wireless trees > > - trivial/cleanup patches > - testing or other requirements? > - should they have lower priority? > - should they require ACKs from primary author? > > - submissions to -stable > - who should drive it? > - what policies? > > - rate scaling algs > - driver-specific ok? what limitations? > - build policies (part of mac80211.ko?) > > - questions/suggestions/complaints > > 1800 Dinner/Break (sorry, no funding) > > 2000 BoF/Break-out Sessions > > Impromptu and/or unscheduled discussions as desired by group > participants > > -- > John W. Linville > linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- > 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 > Some other topics which might be of interest/good to include: - New chipsets needing drivers (SiS 16x, Marvell, etc.) - Radiotap enhancements - Userspace MLME: Plans and status -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
