From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH 00/28] mwl8k updates, initial AP firmware support
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:07:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091104190723.GA10786@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091022181916.GB1583@mail.wantstofly.org>
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:19:16PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> This patch set includes an initial cut at adding support to mwl8k
> for AP chips and firmware images. AP firmware images present a
> slightly different command set than STA firmware images do, and this
> patch set adds support for those AP commands necessary to initialise
> the firmware and allow packet reception.
>
> Note that AP/STA interface creation on AP firmware images is not
> supported yet, this will be added in another set of patches.
>
> (All the code to allow using mwl8k in AP mode exists and works, with
> 11n/AMPDU/hw crypto support, etc., it just needs to be cleaned up a
> bit more and chopped up into logical chunks suitable for submission.)
>
> Comments appreciated!
Are you OK with these being merged? Or are their particular things
you want comments on (or persons you want to comment)?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-22 18:19 [RFC,PATCH 00/28] mwl8k updates, initial AP firmware support Lennert Buytenhek
2009-11-04 19:07 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-11-10 10:21 ` Lennert Buytenhek
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