On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:04 PM, David Lynch Jr. <dhlii@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it reasonable to assume that if I add the WL1271 to the Android
> 2.6.32 kernel tree using compat-wireless that it will properly integrate
> with Android ?
No; last I checked, Android has all kinds of hacks in the wext layer to
work with their UI. But in the mainline, new features are added to nl80211
and wext is deprecated.
> If not could someone point me towards resources specific
> to Android's wireless implimentation ?
There's this, but it's a bit out of date:
http://bobcopeland.com/android_wifi.html
Also I have a few Android ports/makefiles for wireless utitilies here:
https://github.com/bcopeland
>From there, you can follow github forks and see what the community
is doing with them.
My two cents: it's easier to just use the Android code, but it's worth
a whole lot more in the long run to work towards a mainline-friendly,
nl80211-based wireless system. That would make support of additional
mainline wireless drivers much easier.
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