Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:43047 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753110AbZI0PWY (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:22:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Porting AR6K to use cfg80211 From: Samuel Ortiz To: Dave Cc: Matthew Ryan , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4ABD2ECE.50501@gmail.com> References: <200909252005.23746.mb@bu3sch.de> <4ABD2ECE.50501@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:24:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1254065061.2747.6.camel@sortiz-mobl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Dave, On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 21:57 +0100, Dave wrote: > Matthew Ryan wrote: > > Michael Buesch writes: > >> On Friday 25 September 2009 19:40:52 Matthew Ryan wrote: > >>> I was curious if I could get a few expert opinions on if its possible to port > >>> this driver to use mac80211, and how difficult/ what pitfalls there may be. > >> The device is fullmac, so it does not require mac80211. > >> I guess however, ar6k can be ported to use cfg80211. > >> > > > > Do you know of any examples in the source tree which are fullmac, but utilize > > cfg80211 that I could use as a base to get started? > > There are a few fullmac drivers in wireless-testing that use cfg80211. I > don't think these are in the recently released 2.6.31, but are queued > for 2.6.32. At least iwmc3200wifi is in 2.6.31. Cheers, Samuel. > iwmc3200wifi and rndis_wlan are furthest along. orinoco is in the > process of conversion (it uses cfg80211, but relies on the wext > compatibility code for a large portion of functionality). > > > Dave. > -- > 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