On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:40 -0400, Charles Gordon wrote: > >> I'm trying to understand what additional features are needed in >> drivers to support AP mode. I took a look at the mac80211 >> documentation on the web site and all it says is that: > > [...] > >> This makes it seem like the driver doesn't have to do that much more >> than it does normally. Somehow, I don't believe that's it can be that >> easy. What else does the driver need to do to support something like >> hostapd? > > That really is all it needs to do, assuming it is a mac80211 based > driver. There are some minor details like not filtering the frames, > obviously, but those aren't usually a problem. The most common issue is > not being able to implement multicast-after-DTIM correctly. The driver also needs to be capable of reliably reporting the tx status of at least some frames (for example injected frames). 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
