Any plan for inclusion of linux-wlan-ng ?

Any plan for inclusion of linux-wlan-ng ?

[Gaël Le Mignot]

Hello,

I was just  wondering is there is any  plan of including linux-wlan-ng
into  the 2.6  kernel. Does  someone know  about that  ? If  not, does
someone know why ?

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Re: Any plan for inclusion of linux-wlan-ng ?

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:37:03PM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was just  wondering is there is any  plan of including linux-wlan-ng
> into  the 2.6  kernel. Does  someone know  about that  ? If  not, does
> someone know why ?

The authors have never submitted it?  Or wanted to?

greg k-h

Re: Any plan for inclusion of linux-wlan-ng ?

[Jon Oberheide]

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 06:37, Gaël Le Mignot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was just  wondering is there is any  plan of including linux-wlan-ng
> into  the 2.6  kernel. Does  someone know  about that  ? If  not, does
> someone know why ?

After a quick googling:

http://www.advogato.org/person/scandal/

According to this link, the wlan-ng drivers suffer a similar fate as
several other wireless drivers (e.g. HostAP) as they allow for
driver-based (as opposed to firmware-based) WEP encryption and
decryption.

Fortunately, the recent inclusion of the ARC4 module (by yours truly) in
the crypto API will allow these wireless drivers to use this
driver-based WEP and still be included in the kernel.  The Michael MIC
cipher was also recently included by HostAP to be used with TKIP.

I have CC'ed this to the linux-wlan guys in case they're not aware of
this development.

Regards,
Jon Oberheide
jon@focalhost.com

Re: Any plan for inclusion of linux-wlan-ng ?

[Jeff Garzik]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:37:03PM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I was just  wondering is there is any  plan of including linux-wlan-ng
>>into  the 2.6  kernel. Does  someone know  about that  ? If  not, does
>>someone know why ?
> 
> 
> The authors have never submitted it?  Or wanted to?

Never submitted AFAIK, but regardless...

There is a central problem of multiple 802.11 stacks that I very much 
want to avoid.  linux-wlan-ng, HostAP, madwifi, and one or two others.

I had hoped that HostAP would be submitted, and that could form the 
basis of a common 802.11 stack, but I haven't heard anything about that 
in many weeks.

	Jeff

Re: Any plan for inclusion of linux-wlan-ng ?

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 05:05:23PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> I had hoped that HostAP would be submitted, and that could form the 
> basis of a common 802.11 stack, but I haven't heard anything about that 
> in many weeks.

It will be.. WPA2 distracted me from this preparation, but I will try to
get back to cleaning up the Host AP driver for 2.6. Actually, I might
consider submitting it first without CCMP (AES-counter with CBC-MAC),
because that is the part that is likely to take most time to convert for
crypto API and this can be easily added separately.

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