From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver for the FullMAC card
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:19:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217517571.22143.17.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217514241.12016.13.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:24 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> prism2_usb already uses p80211, which is a softmac stack. So the cards
> are already being driven in softmac mode. You basically just have to
> write a mac80211 driver for the hardware and ignore p80211 completely.
I don't think p80211 is a softmac stack. It's just a thin layer for
802.11 packet manipulation. There were some talks about splitting
lib80211 from mac80211 so that FullMAC cards could make use of the
existing code. p80211 is something of that kind.
Prism USB is not much different from other Prism cards. Sure, it needs
packet interface for communicating to the device, but it associates on
its own.
I asked Jouni if HostAP could be converted to SoftMAC, and his answer
was that it may be a good AP but a poor station (sorry I cannot find it
in the archives). The same would apply to Prism USB.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 22:51 Driver for the FullMAC card Dmitry Baryshkov
2008-07-31 13:54 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-31 14:15 ` Dmitry
2008-07-31 14:24 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-31 15:19 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-07-31 20:00 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-31 20:18 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-08-10 7:24 ` Ron Rindjunsky
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