From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Erwin Van de Velde <erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Master mode support in iwlagn?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:09:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338455399.7328.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3093264.LxkCudZSCQ@sylvesterjr.cmi.ua.ac.be> (sfid-20120531_110420_574883_2E884A12)
Please don't top-post.
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 11:03 +0200, Erwin Van de Velde wrote:
> What is the reasoning behind it? Why provide it for some wireless NICs and not
> for others? Seems quite odd for me and features like Internet sharing over
> wireless are not that exotic, are they?
This features requires extensive testing, space in the firmware that not
all devices have, integration, etc. It's not trivial to port to
different devices.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 12:09 Master mode support in iwlagn? Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-30 12:31 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-30 15:02 ` Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-30 22:32 ` Dan Williams
2012-05-31 7:40 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-31 9:03 ` Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-31 9:09 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-05-31 9:20 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-05-31 9:57 ` Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-31 12:01 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-05-31 12:16 ` Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-31 12:26 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-05-31 12:32 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-31 14:23 ` Dan Williams
2012-05-31 16:52 ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-05-31 17:00 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-31 20:00 ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-05-31 18:22 ` Erwin Van de Velde
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