Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009 schrieb Jouni Malinen: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:57:45AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > > > Jouni, what do you think about extending wpa_supplicant to allow mutliple > > drivers to be set on the commandline (-Dnl80211,wext). The supplicant would > > then try to register the first driver and only if that fails it takes the next > > one (e.g. try nl80211 first and if that fails use wext). That way NM could > > use nl80211 for drivers that support nl80211 (mainly mac80211-drivers) and > > wext for the other drivers by passing "-Dnl80211,wext" to the supplicant. > > Well, that could be done inside wpa_supplicant, but more or less the > same effect should already be doable by NM trying to first add the > interface with nl80211 as the driver interface and if that fails, fall > back to wext. True. However, other consumers of wpa_supplicant (e.g. Yast in SUSE) could also benefit from this feature if implemented inside the supplicant. But as I wrote, this was just a quick thought on how to make the transition from wext to nl80211 smoother. Helmut -- 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
