Re: wireless 2.6 work

[Vladimir Kondratiev <vkondra@mail.ru>]

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I did posted once; it was long time ago. I am sure I sent it to Dave. I can 
resend if needed. Basically, I made Dave's stack work on 2.6 kernels; did 
some changes toward QoS and provided simple utility to imitate low level 
driver. I was concentrated on interfaces, it is still just skeleton.

I did not touched this work since then. I used to do stuff very close to 
802.11 stack. Now I am very busy with some different work.
I can however consult on any 802.11 standard issues, QoS in particular.

Maybe, it is good idea to talk to James Ketrenos as well. Last time I saw him 
doing good work on .11 stack.

Vladimir

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 04:15, Jeff Garzik wrote:
JG> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
JG> > Jeff,
JG> >
JG> > I'm sick off the low activity and slow support on wireless we have. I
JG> > know you're busy so I wanted to offer my help in helping around work on
JG> > wireless-2.6, now that I have time after work, and before I commit
JG> > myself to anything else. It's a bit suicidal, but oh well. Oh yeah and
JG> > I'll also start using bitkeeper due to the recent clarifications on the
JG> > license of its usage.
JG>
JG> Great!  While I think BitKeeper is useful, you are more than welcome to
JG> continue sending patches.
JG>
JG> To wireless developers, BitKeeper will mainly be of use in sync'ing with
JG> the latest wireless-2.6 tree.
JG>
JG>
JG> > I'll willing to review as much patches as I have to and also hopefully
JG> > write documentation on writing new wireless drivers. That said, if I
 can JG> > be of any assistance, where what you like me to start on?
JG> >
JG> > Here's what's on my agenda so far:
JG> >
JG> > * Help cleanup new ralink driver, start using ieee802211 and get into
 wireless-2.6. JG> > * Push prism54's new WPA and WDS support into
 wireless-2.6
JG> > * Start seeing what I can use off of ieee80211 for prism54, clean it,
JG> >   and move to wireless-2.6
JG> > * Start incorporating WPA through wpa_supplicant onto as many drivers
JG> > * Start standardizing all things a bit, as bitched about and well
 pointed out JG> >   by Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
JG> > * Listen to Jouni, he's the man
JG>
JG> Well, all this sounds good to me.  See also the 'status' post I just
JG> made, and the 'note on wireless development process' I am about to write.
JG>
JG> I'm really hoping someone will look into integrating wireless 802.11 as
JG> a "real" protocol, rather than faking ethernet.  This work starts with
JG> the "p80211" template DaveM provided, and hopefully continues with
JG> Vladimir's updates of DaveM's code (did he post those anywhere?).  There
JG> are also issues such as ARP types that Dan Williams mentioned to me as
JG> issues.
JG>
JG> The "integrate wireless into net stack" work requires a very
JG> self-motivated person who is willing to poke into the net stack, and
JG> answer their own questions.
JG>
JG>  Jeff
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