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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Please don't top-post.

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 11:03 +0200, Erwin Van de Velde wrote:
> What is the reasoning behind it? Why provide it for some wireless NICs and not 
> for others? Seems quite odd for me and features like Internet sharing over 
> wireless are not that exotic, are they?

This features requires extensive testing, space in the firmware that not
all devices have, integration, etc. It's not trivial to port to
different devices.

johannes