[PATCH] libertas: add auto auth mode feature

[Holger Schurig]

> Is it seriously that large of a block?  I thought we'd discussed a
> fairly viable plan for keeping mesh around while still doing cfg80211.
> Would shipping you a usb8388 dongle or two make it easier to work with?

The plan that was supposed is (for me) hard to code. I got lots of crashes for 
the frankenmonster (cfg80211 for STA/IBSS; WEXT for Libertas-MESH).

It's also not easy for me to spent work time for this, as my employer has NIL 
usage for the mesh stuff at all. I don't care for MESH, it doesn't scratch an 
itch for me. Ugly stuff :-)


For me it's now like this: either someone else adds the mesh stuff, or my  
cfg80211 changes will bitrot. I'll keep me devices at the kernel version that 
I'm using now, so I don't care really that much.


I had a nice solutions for MESH, e.g. I simply used the nl82011/iw commands 
for IBSS. That fitted perfectly the ABI of the firmware for mesh. But Johannes 
opposes this, he wants new commands for joining/leaving. But I don't really 
see to add all that boring & hairy stuff to nl80211/cfg80211 just for this 
MESH that no-one uses. And then I still can't test it. It's kind of nonsense 
to code stuff that you never will use, that you cannot test, and where you 
only see obstables (real or perceived ones) when implementing it.



As for the millions of OLPC users: AFAIK they forked of their kernel, or?

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