On Feb 26 2010, at 15:01, Dan Williams was caught saying: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 12:10 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Holger Schurig > > <holgerschurig at googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> Auto auth mode is enabled by default. If user doesn't specify the > > >> auth mode, while association driver will first try with open mode > > >> and then with shared key mode. If user specifies an auth mode, > > >> auto auth is disabled and driver will not try association with > > >> another auth mode. > > > > > > I'd rather would like if you guys chime in into the cfg80211 port rather > > > than adding stuff to assoc.c and wext.c, which hopefully get's removed > > > really soon now. > > > > > > > > > As a side note: I'm now inclined to get rid of Libertas' proprietary mesh > > > support in the driver. I don't know no one except OLPC that uses it, and > > > even they don't seem work with upstream. For me, this mesh stuff is the last > > > obstacle for cfg80211 support in libertas. <snip> > > Perhaps the OLPC folks might want to fork the driver or maintain a > > patch set for the XO-1 mesh features. Meanwhile we could all move on > > and use cfg80211 and clean things up accordingly. <snip> > It might not be a bad thing to rip out the mesh stuff and add it later, > but we do want to coordinate with OLPC folks as they are still the > *largest user by far* of this driver. As in a million+ units. As has been pointed out, the next-gen XO wireless FW does not have mesh support; however, there are still plenty of end users and developers on the existing XO-1 laptops and I don't think completely removing mesh support is an option our community would be happy with. However, I also don't want to end up with a libertas fork (all our mesh patches are currently upstream and not forkd off) in the OLPC tree so let's figure out a path to make this work for everyone. It looks like there is already some work in progress towards mesh support using cfg80211 [1] and if I can get pointers to the latest version, I can point the OLPC community to them and see if we can find some testers. > Is it seriously that large of a block? I thought we'd discussed a > fairly viable plan for keeping mesh around while still doing cfg80211. > Would shipping you a usb8388 dongle or two make it easier to work with? Or a few XO-1 laptops? :) ~Deepak -- 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
