On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > Let me clarify a little more. > > ath9k_htc is a module which will use ath_htc and ath_hif_usb. > ath9k_htc delcares hardware support for the 802.11n Atheros 9k family > for devices which use HTC. The ar9271 usb device gets probed by > ath_hif_usb. ath9k_htc is being designed as the mac80211 driver for > ar9271 but it may be possible to just share the same ath9k_htc for all > SoftMAC Atheros 11n HTC devices. > > Now, ar6k is FullMAC so an ath9k_htc per se is not needed but I'd > expect you'd just need to implement a ar6k.c which uses cfg80211 and > adds support for the ar6k hw famiy. You'd need to implement an > ath_hif_sdio.c to handle the SDIO transport and this would be the > module probing the ar6k devices over sdio. Now, sure, I don't expect > any PCI/USB ar6k devices but still, this is the architectural approach > I'd like to see. Oh and I missed my main point: if the above is possible we can then share an ath_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
