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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:45:12 -0500
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Subject: Re: Support for Android for mac80211 / cfg80211 802.11 drivers
From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> We get poked every now and then for Android support for mac80211 or
> cfg80211 drivers. Since the questions is quite common I figured It'd
> be good to document what needs to get done for this. Android folks,
> you listening?
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/Android
>
> If you already have worked on this or are going to please feel free to
> update the wiki so no one else re-invents the wheel.

I don't think it's good to advocate a custom driver.  They should be able
to use stock wpa_supplicant w/ nl80211 and put the extensions in the
hardware layer.

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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com