Re: Porting AR6K to use cfg80211

[Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>]

Hi Dave,

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 21:57 +0100, Dave wrote:
> Matthew Ryan wrote:
> > Michael Buesch <mb@...> writes:
> >> On Friday 25 September 2009 19:40:52 Matthew Ryan wrote:
> >>> I was curious if I could get a few expert opinions on if its possible to port
> >>> this driver to use mac80211, and how difficult/ what pitfalls there may be.
> >> The device is fullmac, so it does not require mac80211.
> >> I guess however, ar6k can be ported to use cfg80211.
> >>
> > 
> > Do you know of any examples in the source tree which are fullmac, but utilize
> > cfg80211 that I could use as a base to get started?
> 
> There are a few fullmac drivers in wireless-testing that use cfg80211. I
> don't think these are in the recently released 2.6.31, but are queued
> for 2.6.32.
At least iwmc3200wifi is in 2.6.31.

Cheers,
Samuel.

> iwmc3200wifi and rndis_wlan are furthest along. orinoco is in the
> process of conversion (it uses cfg80211, but relies on the wext
> compatibility code for a large portion of functionality).
> 
> 
> Dave.
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