On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:14:03 +0100
Michael Renzmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:00 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > Why yet another attempt to write 802.11 stack? Sure, the one currently
> > in the kernel is unusable and everybody knows about it. But why not to
> > improve code opensourced by Devicescape some time ago instead of
> > inventing the wheel again and again?
>
> Or, in case there is some unknown objection to the mentioned code: use
> the 802.11 stack that comes along with MadWifi, which provides things
> like virtual interfaces (for multiple SSID support on one physical card)
> and WPA support.
>
> Although I'm a bit biased towards MadWifi, I'd second your suggestion to
> make use of the Devicescape code. The benefit of having a fully-blown
> 802.11 stack in the kernel that drivers can make use of has been
> discussed before, so I won't go into that yet again.
>
Please use or extend the existing net/ieee80211 stack in 2.6.
The defacto plan is to convert all wifi drivers that need software
support to use that.
--
Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger
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