It is surely a dillema because I need the libertas driver in 2.6.37 which moved entitrely to 80211 ditching wext. The only option I can see right now is to use wext to connect to mac80211/cfg80211 Hedwin On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:07 PM, hedwin <hedwin.koning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If it needs to be part of AOSP then it will be a problem. > If not it entirely depends on those maintaining the specific android "distro". > Some follow the google policy others don't. > > Hedwin > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:28 PM, hedwin <hedwin.koning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> The problem with nl80211 and wpa_supplicant in android is that afaik >>> libnl is needed, correct? >>> Only problem with libnl is that it is LGPL which doesn't fit into the >>> android license policy. >>> Although this is a mailing list about wireless drivers this also needs >>> to be addressed >>> because it is part of the problem to get wireless support working in android. >> >> Oh wow, so you mean you won't use libnl for any other things in >> android either? Shit out of luck. >> >> Luis >> > -- 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
