[PATCH] libertas: add auto auth mode feature

[Andrey Yurovsky]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Could one option be to temporarily drop all Libertas mesh support
until cfg80211 supports mesh start/join, and then bring it back under
that new interface?  That way we can move on with Holger's cfg80211
work and folks interested in Libertas mesh can focus on improving the
cfg80211 side accordingly,

> 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.

Johannes' suggestion sounds good, basically the mac80211 mesh
implementation and Libertas would use this start/join command set.
Unfortunately no one seems to be working on this (as far as I know) at
this time.  I wanted to help there but unfortunately dropped the ball
due to lack of any free time to work on it.

 -Andrey

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