Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:41:24 -0500 | Subject | Re: Support for Android for mac80211 / cfg80211 802.11 drivers | From | Bob Copeland <> |
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think it's good to advocate a custom driver. They should be able >> to use stock wpa_supplicant w/ nl80211 and put the extensions in the >> hardware layer. > > Can you elaborate?
From the wiki:
"The proper approach would be to provide a custom driver_nl80211_android.c wrapper for the modified wpa_supplicant in Android."
I just don't think it's strictly necessary to ship a modified wpa_s. Why is Android special when bog standard Linux gets by ok with driver_nl80211?
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