From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Master mode in iw
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:56:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxlu4rdx.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226578011.5105.8.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Thu\, 13 Nov 2008 13\:06\:51 +0100")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
>> > My question is - is there something inherent which prevents
>> > implementing it with "iw"? When comparing to the old set of tools,
>> > which includes iwconifg, "iwconfig wlan0 mode Master" works on some
>> > interfaces.
>>
>> Just guessing, but most probably because there are no drivers which
>> use nl80211 and support AP mode without hostapd, so nobody hasn't
>> bothered to implement it, yet.
>
> And there never will be since we don't want the whole AP MLME in the
> kernel regardless of the driver.
Actually I was thinking about fullmac hardware which support AP mode.
In theory we might need to support those, but I guess in practise
there hasn't been, nor ever will be, such hardware. I'll just shut up
now :)
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-14 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 10:46 Master mode in iw Mark Ryden
2008-11-13 10:57 ` Kalle Valo
2008-11-13 11:49 ` Mark Ryden
2008-11-13 11:53 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-13 11:56 ` Kalle Valo
2008-11-13 12:06 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-14 8:56 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-11-14 13:39 ` Stefanik Gábor
2008-11-14 13:44 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-14 14:19 ` John W. Linville
2008-11-14 14:35 ` Stefanik Gábor
2008-11-14 14:41 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-14 21:56 ` Johannes Berg
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