Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:48986 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753075Ab1BXSwa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:52:30 -0500 Received: by yxs7 with SMTP id 7so405062yxs.19 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:52:29 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4D5DA039.9010907@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:52:17 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project ideas page for the Linux Foundation online From: Hin-Tak Leung To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Dan Williams , Till Kamppeter , Alexey Khoroshilov , Greg KH , "lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" , linux-wireless , Open Printing , Lars Uebernickel , peter sikking Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Till Kamppeter >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have set up a page for project ideas for the Linux Foundation's >>>> participation in the Google Summer of Code 2011: >>>> >>>> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/google-summer-code-2011 >>>> >>>> Please add your ideas to the sub-page of your work group. If you have >>>> problems mail me with your project idea. >>> >>> For 802.11 you can dump your ideas here: >>> >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2011/ >>> >>> ?Luis >> >> Seeing as a few of the mac80211-based wireless drivers (for some of >> the more dumb/basic/cheap devices) has gained access-point(AP)-mode >> support code in the kernel recently in the last few months, it would >> probably be appropriate to add (if it isn't already there) or enhance >> access-point-mode support in some of the user-land tools like >> NetworkManager, nm-applet, or wireless assistant? > > The dbus / supplicant stuff was done in GSoC 2009, see: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/Add_AP_Support_to_Network_Manager > > Patches were sent to Jouni and IIRC the dbus stuff was the last stuff > being figured out. So IIRC this was just a matter of userspace > catchup. If we need that then sure, Dan? > > ?Luis > Oh, so long ago :-). (GSoC 2009 would be over a little over a year ago). Somebody can write a user-friendly GUI wizard to do a wireless-wired bridge i.e. plus netfilter nat/masquerading config? Does hostapd has a dbus interface i.e. can it be invoked by the console owner on-the-fly? It does not seem to - would that be useful/do-able as a student project?