Re: zd1211 3.0.0.56 "vendor driver" - please help port to zd1211rw

["Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:08:05AM -0700, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>> This is just a head-up that I have a series of diffs to port the
>> vendor driver forward to current kernels, if anybody wants to have a
>> look, for side-by-side scavenging to the rw driver. (I probably will
>> post them to the sourceforge zd1211-dev list after a little look at
>> that oops)
>
> That's great to hear, feel free to post them to linux-wireless as
> RFC/RFTs.
>
>> BTW, anybody has any idea what else is needed for the rw driver to
>> support AP mode?
>
> Not me.

AFAIK the developers will never accept any AP mode for zd1211 devices,
as it has no multicast buffering feature in the hardware. (The vendor
driver, as well as the Windows driver implements AP mode with a spec
violation to get around the lack of a multicast buffer.)
CCing Johannes, he was the one who initially said that.

>
>  Luis
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