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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: "David Lynch Jr." <dhlii@dlasys.net>, elvis.dowson@mac.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WL1271
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:07:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin2cTCT7aZ7_EX+7ZjSoXdt28wKZzBM7VVXyj25@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292879085.20560.6.camel@t-dhlii>

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:04 PM, David Lynch Jr. <dhlii@dlasys.net> wrote:
>        Is it reasonable to assume that if I add the WL1271 to the Android
> 2.6.32 kernel tree using compat-wireless that it will properly integrate
> with Android ?

No; last I checked, Android has all kinds of hacks in the wext layer to
work with their UI.  But in the mainline, new features are added to nl80211
and wext is deprecated.

> If not could someone point me towards resources specific
> to Android's wireless implimentation ?

There's this, but it's a bit out of date:

    http://bobcopeland.com/android_wifi.html

Also I have a few Android ports/makefiles for wireless utitilies here:

    https://github.com/bcopeland

>From there, you can follow github forks and see what the community
is doing with them.

My two cents: it's easier to just use the Android code, but it's worth
a whole lot more in the long run to work towards a mainline-friendly,
nl80211-based wireless system.  That would make support of additional
mainline wireless drivers much easier.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-20 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <0826983CC0CB074798C42E77D8ACD07F01AE4A@pdtms1.pdt.com>
     [not found] ` <1292843841.13129.9.camel@chilepepper>
2010-12-20 17:12   ` WL1271 chip Brzezowski, Karen
2010-12-20 17:47     ` Arend Van Spriel
     [not found]       ` <0826983CC0CB074798C42E77D8ACD07F01AF50@pdtms1.pdt.com>
2010-12-20 19:58         ` Arend Van Spriel
2010-12-20 21:00     ` Elvis Dowson
2010-12-20 21:04     ` WL1271 David Lynch Jr.
2010-12-20 21:31       ` WL1271 Elvis Dowson
2010-12-21 18:50         ` WL1271 David Lynch Jr.
2010-12-21 19:39           ` WL1271 Elvis Dowson
2010-12-20 22:07       ` Bob Copeland [this message]

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