After some talk on IRC I have the following plan: * all WEXT code for the normal STA code goes into assoc.c, wext.c and scan.c. Therefore, all my patches not marked as RFC should be reviewed and go into the kernel. * There will be no CONFIG_LIBERTAS_WEXT or CONFIG_LIBERTAS_CFG80211 command line option, so we have one "flip-day", where we go from WEXT based confuguration to CFG80211-based configuration (note that cfg80211 allowes WEXT-based tools via compat-wext.c) * for Libertas' mesh, we'll get an CONFIG_LIBERTAS_MESH config. * Liberas' mesh code also depend on WIRELESS_WEXT, it needs 4 WEXT ioctls: get ssid, set ssid, get mode and set channel. For the beginning, libertas+cfg80211 will behave similar to libertas+wext. That means: at module probing + initialization time, it probes the firmware for mesh. It will the create a (cfg80211 controlled) interface for STA, and if firmware supports MESH, it creates an (wext controlled) mshX device. * I plan to code the mesh code, as it seems now quite simple. Testing must be done by third-parties. I want to move all mesh related code into one or two files, probably persistcfg+ethtool+mesh-stuff from main.c into mesh.h/mesh.c. Or rename persistcfg.c to mesh.c, something around this lines. This makes CONFIG_LIBERTAS_MESH less intrusive. * That means we have a bunch of WEXT cleanup patches, that move things around in order to isolate WEXT related stuff into some files. And another bunch of MESH cleanup patches, that isolate MESH in some files. And then, at "flag day" there will come a patch that adds the full cfg80211 support, the CONFIG_LIBERTAS_MESH Kconfig and removes the WEXT-code, now isolated in scan.c, assoc.c and wext.c. At some later time, if people are still interested in MESH (OLPC people should document by maintaining it) we can fully get rid of MESH-related WEXT code by converting it to CFG80211, too. Otherwise, we might rip out MESH, which will also be easier because of the isolation. * It's not clear yet if the first libertas+cfg80211 will support adhoc, monitor reception and monitor packet injection. All of this might come on the "flag day" --- or later. Full station mode will come, sans some bugs :-) Dan, I hope this recap is what we talked about. If not, please correct me. All other parties, please comment. -- M&N Solutions GmbH Ein Unternehmen der Datagroup AG Holger Schurig Raiffeisenstr. 10 61191 Rosbach Tel: 06003/9141-15 Fax 06003/9141-49 http://www.mn-solutions.de/ Handelsregister Friedberg, HRB 5903 Geschäftsführer: P.Schrittenlocher -- 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
