Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostapd: use nl80211 instead of prism ioctls to create  interfaces
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
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On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 19:55 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> In my particular case, one of the main problems was in svn not working
> after libexpat update on Gentoo.. ;-)  This made it a bit difficult to
> fetch the correct version.

Heh :)

> At this point, we are indeed talking about quite bleeding edge stuff,
> but I'm planning on releasing hostapd 0.6.1 at some point soonish and I
> would hope that mainline Linux kernel will get enough stuff for at least
> minimal AP functionality and at that point, I do not really want to
> point people at an svn repository as the only means of getting a
> required library..

What's "soonish"? Realistically, if we keep working at this rate, I
don't expect we'll have AP functionality in before 2.6.26.

johannes

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