Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:3709 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753743AbXJaTG6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:06:58 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so289909wah for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8e8340660710311206pefafa6bw5cc022637265f4b6@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20071031_190702_112463_3845A495) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:55 -0700 From: "Luis Carlos Cobo" To: "Dan Williams" Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] o80211s: (zd1211rw-mac80211) support for mesh interface Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1193832127.23775.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <4727de15.0abd720a.7b07.ffffb1f7@mx.google.com> <1193832127.23775.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/31/07, Dan Williams wrote: > Awesome to see this work. I assume you're developing on zd1211 then? Yes, we started with this device because it's cheap and easy to find, so more people can test this and contribute. We intend to support any softmac device with a driver using mac80211. > Would similar changes be necessary to support other devices? Yes, basically support the mesh interface type and make sure mesh (WDS type) frames are not filtered out and are acknowledged (otherwise you get tons of duplicates). Apart from that, this driver did not support beaconing, so we had to add that too. Fortunately the GPL vendor driver is quite complete so we could port the features from there. Thanks for the comments, I will include them as well as Johannes' and resend the patches. -- Luis Carlos Cobo Rus GnuPG ID: 44019B60 cozybit Inc.