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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What is needed to inplement a AP support in a driver?
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:16:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1239092205.22453.0.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239062777.4705.30.camel@maxim-laptop> (sfid-20090407_020641_627468_1583988E)

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On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 03:06 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> I recently found that now ath5k supports AP mode.
> I also found that most of the work is now done in userspace.
> 
> Since many drivers including my IWL3945 support sending beacons for IBSS
> (strictly speaking userspace can send them too, but this is  sub
> optimal), what else driver must support for AP?

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/API

> If I patch it to support it (just add ap to list of allowed modes) will
> it work? (I soon anyway try out....)

no.

johannes

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-07  0:06 What is needed to inplement a AP support in a driver? Maxim Levitsky
2009-04-07  5:13 ` Kalle Valo
2009-04-07  8:16 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-04-07  9:25 ` Rami Rosen
2009-04-07 13:11   ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-04-09 12:08     ` Maxim Levitsky

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