On Thu, 2023-10-26 at 12:49 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On 10/26/23 00:27, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > > I might be interested in modernizing the driver, but I have no idea > > > how much effort it would be (in terms of changed fraction of code). > > > 20k LOC is neither small or big, and not obvious (a lot of it would > > > be unchanged), if it is a week of work, or months of work. > > > > Hi Witold, > > > > I am trying to do this with rtl8192e. > > One possibility is to take the following patch series as a starting point: > > https://yhbt.net/lore/all/1414604649-9105-1-git-send-email-tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx/ > > > > For me as a beginner and hobbyist this is a huge task. I am happy when > > I can finish it until next summer. > > We also have some docs available: > > https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/80211/ > > And I also recommend looking at our hwsim driver as that gives a good > idea how a simple mac80211 driver works: > FWIW, I don't think this can be ported to mac80211 - only cfg80211. It's a fullMAC device. johannes
