From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.216.181]:34297 "EHLO mail-qy0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758078Ab0LTWHO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:07:14 -0500 Received: by qyk12 with SMTP id 12so3717242qyk.19 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:07:13 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1292879085.20560.6.camel@t-dhlii> References: <0826983CC0CB074798C42E77D8ACD07F01AE4A@pdtms1.pdt.com> <1292843841.13129.9.camel@chilepepper> <0826983CC0CB074798C42E77D8ACD07F01AEA8@pdtms1.pdt.com> <1292879085.20560.6.camel@t-dhlii> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:07:13 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: WL1271 From: Bob Copeland To: "David Lynch Jr." , elvis.dowson@mac.com Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:04 PM, David Lynch Jr. 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 There's this, but it's a bit out of date: http://bobcopeland.com/android_wifi.html Also I have a few Android ports/makefiles for wireless utitilies here: https://github.com/bcopeland 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