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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:29:54 +0300
From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: REVISED AGENDA -- Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:26 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>
>> 0900  Status Reports
>>
>>       Overview of where things stand today
>>
>>       - 802.11n
>>
>>       - QoS/Multiqueue
>
> It might make sense to do these the other way around since 11n depends
> on the MQ stuff. I can talk about davem's recent changes that remove
> most of the code, but other than that I think we're pretty much set.
>
>> 1030  Current Work
>>
>>       Short presentations/discussions about work in progress
>>
>>       - access point mode
>>
>>       - cfg80211/nl80211
>>               - time to push to replace WEXT?
>>               - tool enhancements and/or userland support?
>
> Both of those are pretty much stalled now, apparently because I was the
> only one investing time into them and am no longer doing anything at the
> moment. I can give a five-minute overview over what we need/want for
> each of those I guess.

I believe as WEXT limitations are more visible mainly in the context
of fullmac chips.
A discussion that defining new interface or it course will be very
important. cfg80211 came a bit ahead of it's time and I  believe
actually now we can spin it again.
Tomas