Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:50892 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750729AbYKNI5Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:57:16 -0500 To: "Johannes Berg" Cc: Mark Ryden , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Master mode in iw References: <87ej1f6ggq.fsf@nokia.com> <87wsf74z6f.fsf@nokia.com> <1226578011.5105.8.camel@johannes.berg> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:56:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1226578011.5105.8.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Thu\, 13 Nov 2008 13\:06\:51 +0100") Message-ID: <87fxlu4rdx.fsf@nokia.com> (sfid-20081114_095721_421330_A3FF08A1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: >> > My question is - is there something inherent which prevents >> > implementing it with "iw"? When comparing to the old set of tools, >> > which includes iwconifg, "iwconfig wlan0 mode Master" works on some >> > interfaces. >> >> Just guessing, but most probably because there are no drivers which >> use nl80211 and support AP mode without hostapd, so nobody hasn't >> bothered to implement it, yet. > > And there never will be since we don't want the whole AP MLME in the > kernel regardless of the driver. Actually I was thinking about fullmac hardware which support AP mode. In theory we might need to support those, but I guess in practise there hasn't been, nor ever will be, such hardware. I'll just shut up now :) -- Kalle Valo