Re: Modifying the driver iwlwifi

["Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>]

Hi Cassiano,

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 09:17 -0700, Cassiano Tartari, Eng. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm a masters student of Automation and Systems Engineering at
> Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. I'd like to know if it
> is possible to modify the implementation of iwlwifi because I need to
> decrease the time of association between the client and the AP. I'd
> like to implement something in the same way like I read in an article,
> project QuickWifi. Its basic idea is that a client doesn't wait each
> response to go to the next step, so just do: AUTH REQ -> ASSOC REQ ->
> DHCP DISC -> DHCP REQ -> ARP QUERY and a PING THROUGH to verify that
> an end-to-end connection is available.
> 
>     I need this to my work, it will be used for the communication
> between a moving vehicle and a fixed point on the street.
> 

It is an open source project, so please feel free to make the
modifications; but please do follow the upstream process and submit the
patch to either "internal-wifi-devel@linux.intel.com" mailing list or
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" mailing list for review

Thanks
Wey