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author | Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> | 2011-10-05 10:35:49 -0500 |
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committer | Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> | 2011-11-09 21:28:02 -0600 |
commit | 22439800180ee3092269b134b3a93c3446de03dc (patch) | |
tree | bdf5728abc344d6175e4e5b225d26938107fa93e /TODO | |
parent | d043e28b440c8401357b76e03340dbaab0a622cd (diff) |
todo: nl80211 work is finished
Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
-rw-r--r-- | TODO | 18 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -41,24 +41,6 @@ attribute from the sysfs directory for the ATM interface on 2.6.38.8 and later kernels). -* Convert WEXT code to nl80211 - -There's still some WEXT code in NetworkManager for signal strength reporting, -mode, frequency, BSSID, etc. This should all get converted to nl80211 code, -possibly using libnl as a base. It's not particularly hard, but some -investigation on how to talk to netlink and how to use nl80211 and netlink -attributes will need to be done. Tools like 'iw' already do much of this work, -but we *cannot* copy & paste code from them since the 'iw' license is not -compatible with NetworkManager's GPL license. For exmaple, the following code -does the job, but should be reworked a bit to use the internal synchronous -netlink connection from src/nm-netlink-manager.c instead of doing the -netlink communication on its own with genl_connect() and such: - -http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-September/msg00214.html - -The same approach should be taken for signal strength reporting, etc. - - * Real Access Point mode support Now that NetworkManager requires wpa_supplicant 0.7.x or later, we can add |