From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:33506 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760591AbXFEN5n (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:57:43 -0400 Subject: Re: nl80211 status? (implying cfg80211 status) From: Johannes Berg To: David Lamparter Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1181040798.8274.10.camel@johannes.berg> References: <20070604193034.GA16350@charon.n2.diac24.net> <1181040798.8274.10.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-0qmkFoGrBrLxWLL0exkS" Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:57:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1181051870.8274.17.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-0qmkFoGrBrLxWLL0exkS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 12:53 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > As far as I understand, the first thing to tackle is converting > > everything to cfg80211 and making wext call cfg80211 functions, > > putting all the compatibility cruft into that layer while at it. >=20 > I wouldn't necessarily start with that. I should've elaborated here. What I'd do if I had time now is add things to nl80211/cfg80211 and then implement the calls in mac80211 (or a fullmac driver of your choice.) Then write the appropriate userspace tool for testing and see if it works, i.e. you can associate, do key operations etc. Use WEP for now, and then maybe modify wpa_supplicant too for nl80211. Then, at some point, you have wpa_supplicant working on mac80211 (or the driver). Then in theory you don't need wext any more, and as an afterthought you can still add wext compatibility so the deprecated wireless tools continue to work. johannes --=-0qmkFoGrBrLxWLL0exkS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGZWve/ETPhpq3jKURAlTaAKC3Pfs6OG8Ss+jC2NuVrdisca+ZdACgp5Kv 1PkxbnCX7wt+QbVyVZyQZ+0= =GHvN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0qmkFoGrBrLxWLL0exkS--