Return-path: Received: from mx51.mymxserver.com ([85.199.173.110]:12562 "EHLO mx51.mymxserver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751096AbZI1PII convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:08:08 -0400 From: Holger Schurig To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [RFC] libertas: first stab at cfg80211 support Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:07:59 +0200 Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless , Dan Williams References: <200909281321.21600.h.schurig@mn-solutions.de> <200909281654.08859.h.schurig@mn-solutions.de> <1254149857.3151.5.camel@johannes.local> In-Reply-To: <1254149857.3151.5.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200909281707.59846.h.schurig@mn-solutions.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > It might make sense to support adding interfaces with nl80211, > since apparently it has mesh and monitor interfaces. Yes, this will eventually be added. In the end I'd like to have all WEXT code in it's own file or #ifdef'd and I'd like to have a working libertas_cs and libertas_usb that don't need WEXT at all. But that will take considerable time :-) One step towards this goal will be monitor mode via NL80211. Mesh-support via NL80211 must be done by someone else, I don't have neither the knowledge, mesh nodes nor a mesh-capable firmware. And I don't really care about mesh. So if no one else does it, the CFG80211-only libertas-driver won't have mesh at all. -- M&N Solutions GmbH Ein Unternehmen der Datagroup AG Holger Schurig Raiffeisenstr. 10 61191 Rosbach Tel: 06003/9141-15 Fax 06003/9141-49 http://www.mn-solutions.de/ Handelsregister Friedberg, HRB 5903 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: P.Schrittenlocher