On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Dave <kilroyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthew Ryan wrote: >> Michael Buesch <mb@...> writes: >>> On Friday 25 September 2009 19:40:52 Matthew Ryan wrote: >>>> I was curious if I could get a few expert opinions on if its possible to port >>>> this driver to use mac80211, and how difficult/ what pitfalls there may be. >>> The device is fullmac, so it does not require mac80211. >>> I guess however, ar6k can be ported to use cfg80211. >>> >> >> Do you know of any examples in the source tree which are fullmac, but utilize >> cfg80211 that I could use as a base to get started? > > There are a few fullmac drivers in wireless-testing that use cfg80211. I > don't think these are in the recently released 2.6.31, but are queued > for 2.6.32. > > iwmc3200wifi and rndis_wlan are furthest along. orinoco is in the > process of conversion (it uses cfg80211, but relies on the wext > compatibility code for a large portion of functionality). Additionally you can poke at the HTC / HIF stuff I'm doing for ar9271: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc Granted I've removed all credit distribution stuff as ar9271 doesn't use it, but it still may be easier to use that then what I had seen on ar6k for HTC. Luis -- 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
