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SubjectRe: Support for Android for mac80211 / cfg80211 802.11 drivers
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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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