From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:11627 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750982Ab0JUQ7a (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:59:30 -0400 Subject: Re: Modifying the driver iwlwifi From: "Guy, Wey-Yi" To: "Cassiano Tartari, Eng." Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:58:35 -0700 Message-Id: <1287680315.4759.4.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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