On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 06:57 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:30:52PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > If it is fine to remove the custom wpa_supplicant modifications from > > Android, this is obviously a moot point, but until that happens, the > > easiest approach seems to be to provide a custom driver_*.c based on > > nl80211 to isolate the custom changes to user space and to small part of > > it at that. I don't really want to see new drivers trying to provide > > WEXT support with private ioctls to address need for making it work with > > Android.. > > I guess my argument is if Atheros is spending resources on porting > drivers to Android, it would be nice to take the time to fix Android's > userspace too. At any rate, I disagree with the wiki's wording "the > proper approach" as opposed to maybe "the straight-forward approach." I couldn't let that sit there so I edited it ;-) > Android already has a custom userspace library that sits between wpa_s > and their Java stack where they could probably stick all of this stuff. > If there is something that is truly missing from the kernel, then by > all means we can add it to nl80211 for everyone's benefit. Right. But then stock wpa_s can also get it, and everybody is happy, no? johannes -- 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
