2016-01-04 16:34:19

by Gucea Doru

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Subject: Android with mac80211

Hello folks,

Is there any Android smartphone that uses the mac80211 framework for
Wi-Fi management (e.g: driver with support for mac80211)?

After searching several hours, the only result that I have is that the
wcn36xx driver [1] can be used on some Android devices. The problem is
that the driver is not yet upstreamed and it does lack a lot of
features.

If this is not the bestplace for asking this question, please link me
to the correct mailing list.

[1] https://github.com/KrasnikovEugene/wcn36xx

Thank you,
Doru


2016-01-05 16:00:27

by Johannes Berg

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Subject: Re: Android with mac80211

On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 17:34 +0100, Gucea Doru wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Is there any Android smartphone that uses the mac80211 framework for
> Wi-Fi management (e.g: driver with support for mac80211)?

Very few. There used to be phones with TI chipset that did.

Another one is this platform:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/04/09/introducing-intel-
atom-x3-code-named-sofia-soc-processor-series

which (essentially) uses the 'iwlwifi' driver with mac80211.

johannes