On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:20:49 Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:09:59 Johannes Berg wrote: > > Please don't top-post. > > > > On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 11:03 +0200, Erwin Van de Velde wrote: > > > What is the reasoning behind it? Why provide it for some wireless NICs > > > and > > not > > > > for others? Seems quite odd for me and features like Internet sharing > > > over > > > wireless are not that exotic, are they? > > > > This features requires extensive testing, space in the firmware that not > > all devices have, integration, etc. It's not trivial to port to > > different devices. > > It certainly is not, but you can get some help from the software mac with > that regard. Since your device is capable of beaconing for P2P and GO > modes, Erwin's question is perfectly legitimate with respect to AP support. > I suppose that you could get it working without too much firmware work. > > At the same time, since Intel's iwlwifi series are targetted at the laptop > market, and not AP/router solutions, it certainly was not in a roadmap to > get AP mode supported. Apart from pleasing people, that won't make you sell > more adapters. > I am unable to give an opinion about the difficulty of this request, since I have never had a look at the code :-) However, theoretically I would expect that it is very similar to what is being done for other wireless drivers, but I can be wrong... The interface may be targeted for the laptop market, but as I said, Internet sharing is quite handy sometimes and that is why I was looking for the AP mode. I do not understand the last sentence... If you please customers, does that not lead to selling more of your products? So, the question is: how many people would like to have this feature? And considering the availability of this option in other drivers, software like e.g. NetworkManager, other OSs like e.g. Max OSX, etc. I would like to argue that there is indeed a need for this feature in the market. Best regards, Erwin -- 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
