On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:11:23 +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote: > to evaluate the Devicescape stack, I started porting the ipw2100 driver to > it. > However I do have one major problem. At least the snapshort from January 2nd > does not seem to support devices that do scanning and associating controlled > by firmware. > > Is this assumptions right, and if so, will it be changed and what help will > you need to do it?
Yes, it's right. I was thinking about adding callbacks to ieee80211_hw which (if non-NULL) will be used instead of default ("softmac") handling. Something like start_scan()/stop_scan() together with ieee80211_add_network(). Similarly for association etc. Communication with userspace AP daemon needs to be changed anyway, so there is no problem with adding these callbacks. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do this right now as there are other issues that should be addressed first - like the overall concept of using net_devices. If you write some patches, I will really appreciate it. > It would be bad to end up with one stack for dumb devices (that by the way, > do > have their advantages like multiple associations controlled by the stack) and > one for cards with firmware. Agreed. Thanks, -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html