linux-kernel - Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008

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Message-Id: <1216145731.13411.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:15:31 -0400
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Guy Cohen <guy@...y.net>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:42 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:05:13PM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote:
> > I think that probably the most burning topics were a little diminished
> > in our agenda, and should be put higher:
> > - cfg80211/nl80211 - much of the current wext begins to fall behind
> > the emerging capabilities of the mac80211 and moreover - from future
> > abilities and needs of future fullmac devices. The functionality and
> > ABI to userspace must be finalized as soon as possible. The status of
> > this is very unclear and should be treated more thoroughly, and it
> > seems it can't be shared with 5 other topics in less than 2 hours.
> 
> FWIW, I listed this one first under Future Work.
> 
> > - fullmac support - seems to be very relevant in the next couple of
> > years with the integration of wifi into low power devices running
> > linux.
> 
> Not sure exactly what you mean with this one.  Are you talking about
> the lib80211 line item?  Or enhancements to the mac80211 component
> to support full(er) MAC designs?

I hope just lib80211.  We shouldn't be extending mac80211 to fullmac or
quasi-fullmac parts.  But we can certainly share a lot of stuff.
lib80211 is where I see any additional fullmac effort going.

Dan

> > I think that these two topics should take precedence over other topics
> > that although important consume more time in the agenda, and are
> > currently less likely to have impact on the average users such as 11s
> > and 11w.
> > 
> > it would be good if these topics will get substantial time slot in the agenda.
> 
> There are lots of items listed, and I'm not sure we will cover all
> of them.  If there are any that you would like to suggest be dropped
> completely then please do so.
> 
> That said, I don't think we have enough time for real working sessions
> on Tuesday.  I think it would be better just to touch on a variety
> of topics that can benefit from some face-to-face discussions.
> From that perspective, I think some status reports and some brief
> proposals are most appropriate.
> 
> I'll post a revised (mostly just augmented) agenda proposal today.
> 
> John

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