Re: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"

Andreas Hartmann
2015-01-01T10:58:55Z

Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 12/31/14 16:14, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
[...]
>> All in all:
>> If you want to get rid of wext, you still have to go a *very* long way
>> to get the same *stable* and high throughput quality with *all* chips
>> depending on mac80211 and not just a few flagship drivers like Atheros.
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> That's a nice list of unrelated stuff. This has all nothing to do with
> WEXT. Actually, you can build rt5572sta with cfg80211 support
> (RT_CFG80211_SUPPORT).

You seem to know sources I don't know off. Could you please tell me,
where to find them?

I have DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.0.1_20120629 which doesn't compile with
HAS_CFG80211_SUPPORT=y because -DCONFIG_AP_SUPPORT, on which
RT_CFG80211_SUPPORT relies, is broken.

DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.1.3_20121022 removed the necessary broken AP
code completely.

> This thread is about the configuration API and
> not about driver performance.

I know.

I tried to show, why WEXT as a whole is still necessary even if there is
a mac80211 based driver, because of the weakness of rt2800usb:
Nip it in the bud.

Kind regards,
Andreas