On 2014-04-23 11:31, Felix Fietkau wrote: > Quick update on this subject: Linksys has now posted a GPL source for > the WRT1900AC, and it contains the wifi driver sources. > It appears to me, that this driver was properly licensed under GPL, with > proper license headers in all source files. > > This means that work on supporting this device can theoretically > continue, although I expect it to take quite a bit of time. As I > anticipated, the code quality of the driver source code is abysmal. > This looks like rewrite (not cleanup) material, ugly enough to cause eye > cancer or frighten small children ;) > > There are also still some pieces missing: Since this driver does not use > standard Linux Wireless APIs, it can only properly function with custom > hostapd/wpa_supplicant hacks. I don't see those in the release. Update 2: Those can be found in the OpenWrt SDK for this device on GitHub. Same comments regarding code quality apply here.
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