From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Ramalhais Subject: Re: Updated WE-18 (WPA) proposal Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:33:47 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <1093966225.1464.9.camel@rootix> References: <20040830045441.GA7415@jm.kir.nu> <20040830165026.GD29492@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <413363CB.7060807@pobox.com> <20040830174215.GA32132@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <41336A28.9010608@pobox.com> <20040830220105.GY22126@ruslug.rutgers.edu> <4133A811.1010009@pobox.com> <20040831085458.GD31207@ruslug.rutgers.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , jt@hpl.hp.com, Jouni Malinen , netdev@oss.sgi.com, hostap@shmoo.com Return-path: To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" In-Reply-To: <20040831085458.GD31207@ruslug.rutgers.edu> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 09:54, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 06:20:01PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:55:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > >>Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > > > > > > ><-- snip --> > > > > > >>> Also, I'm not clear how the stuff in wireless-2.6 is supposed > > >>>to trickle into the other trees (netdev-2.6, -mm and Linus's), and how > > >>>to better link it with the CVS of the various drivers involved. > > >> > > >>Less of a trickle than a flood: wireless-2.6 should be the target for > > >>development of shared wireless stack code. As several drivers are > > >>currently using bits of HostAP, for example, wireless-2.6 should be a > > >>focal point for patches that modify these drivers to instead share the > > >>same code. > > >> > > >>Once this generic work is done, it would get pushed all at once to > > >>netdev-2.6, where it would receive testing in -mm. Then, later, pushed > > >>to mainline. > > >> > > >> Jeff > > > > > > > > >Beides wpa_supplicant from hostap code (which is actually going into > > >WE18) what other code re-use is on the roadmap as of yet for wireless-2.6? > > > > Intel Centrino driver is re-using chunks of HostAP, and I'm looking at > > doing so for the RealTek 8180 driver I am about to publish. > > Can someone elaborate on what "chunks" the centrino driver is using > from hostap? > > Jeff what aspects are you looking to re-use from hostap? > > I guess we at prism54 should also see what we can re-use too then. > Our next driver (a softmac driver) will have a lot more code since the > MAC will need to be implemented on the driver side -- I'm not yet sure > of the exact details as I haven't grep'd through the available code yet > I'm wondering though -- are there any other softmac drivers out there, > or to come soon? > > Luis The ipw2100 driver and ipw2200 driver both use these parts of hostap code: RX code (i think now it's in file hostap_80211_rx.c) little parts of the TX code (hostap_80211_tx.c) the hostap_crypt* code for WEP. Some IEEE802.11 related parts of header files. The ipw2100 is beggining to use hostap_crypt_tkip and hostap_crypt_ccmp for WPA and WPA2. I think that's it. Better ask James Ketrenos, he is one of the developers at intel. -- Pedro Ramalhais