Return-path: Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.26]:1887 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751558AbYKNNjv (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:39:51 -0500 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so829698qwe.37 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:39:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <69e28c910811140539p57fa13dej4c13aa0d09c76f95@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081114_143956_622656_B09502F4) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:39:50 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefanik_G=E1bor?=" To: "Kalle Valo" Subject: Re: Master mode in iw Cc: "Johannes Berg" , "Mark Ryden" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <87fxlu4rdx.fsf@nokia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <87ej1f6ggq.fsf@nokia.com> <87wsf74z6f.fsf@nokia.com> <1226578011.5105.8.camel@johannes.berg> <87fxlu4rdx.fsf@nokia.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > I doubt that any fullmac hardware should have a mac80211-based driver... -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)