Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755002Ab0BASBl (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:01:41 -0500 Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com ([209.85.216.182]:60036 "EHLO mail-px0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754927Ab0BASBi (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:01:38 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=qducSP4eFE0igVtN0EF2rU7sGMaE3pIRPb4WyJCGYc3N+3NIJzQmul8PqF31rpjNwm PVhmhE7HhUFUp6gy6J7XddvkjJeftG+LjvVgqKTR9c9JiYe0K+In5MZxZ2su5QOFWZ9a sUr6r8h7T2IwpKSgLfc7+HCdGD++UMnqaUlX8= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1264972854.3597.17.camel@johannes.local> References: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> <4B65F024.3080505@gmail.com> <1264972854.3597.17.camel@johannes.local> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:01:17 -0800 Message-ID: <43e72e891002011001l4e914094v33e73209a9da93e8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas To: Johannes Berg Cc: Witold Sowa , linux-wireless , Till Kamppeter , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1286 Lines: 27 On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 22:03 +0100, Witold Sowa wrote: > >> Some time ago johill asked me if I would be interested in hacking on >> adding WPS support to NetworkManager. Well, I would but I don't know >> when I'll find some time for that. I don't know how much of work would >> it require, but it possibly could be a topic of one of GSoC 2010 >> projects. I have no idea know if anybody would be willing to be a mentor >> for such a project. > > Sounds like a good project to me, but I don't think I'd be a good mentor > for since I'm not familiar with the NM codebase at all. As for how much > work it would require, I think the basic client-side functionality could > possibly be "too simple" for you, WPS has a lot of additional > functionality (e.g. WPS support for the AP side). In case it helps, I believe all that would be required is the dbus stuff, there are sample GUI examples of this already provided through the wpa_supplicant wpa_gui. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/