From: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it>
Cc: "kvalo@kernel.org" <kvalo@kernel.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pete Hsieh <tsung-hsien.hsieh@nxp.com>,
rafael.beims <rafael.beims@toradex.com>,
Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:59:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PA4PR04MB9638D253189D6DD330B198B2D1332@PA4PR04MB9638.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <969e95ccc4a1d35b45212b7fcb536ee90995e3b5.camel@sipsolutions.net>
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 8:13 PM
> To: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>; Francesco Dolcini
> <francesco@dolcini.it>
> Cc: kvalo@kernel.org; linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com>; Pete Hsieh
> <tsung-hsien.hsieh@nxp.com>; rafael.beims <rafael.beims@toradex.com>;
> Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme
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> On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 17:49 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> >
> > Now that I've looked a bit closer today: I'm realizing this may(?) be
> > one of the first "full MAC" drivers trying to implement its own MLME
> > -- or at least, the auth/assoc bits.
>
> Hmm, yeah, why _is_ that? mwifiex was originally "sold" as a "full MAC"
> driver, i.e. doing things in the firmware.
>
> We've said that "soft MAC" drivers should be using mac80211, but this thing
> can't seem to decide?
>
> Also decl.h should probably _shrink_ rather than grow, a number of things just
> replicate ieee80211.h (such as MWIFIEX_MGMT_HEADER_LEN really is just
> sizeof(ieee80211_mgmt) or so? Not quite correctly.)
>
This can be done for feature patches.
> So yeah, agree with Brian, not only would this be the first, but it's also
> something we don't really _want_. All other drivers that want stuff like this are
> stuck in staging ...
>
> So why is this needed for a supposedly "firmware does it all" driver, and why
> can it not be integrated with mac80211 if it's no longer "firmware does it all"?
>
> Johannes
Our proprietary driver is cfg80211 driver, it is very hard to create a brand new mac80211 driver and still can port all tested stuffs from our proprietary driver.
Thanks,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-20 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-06 2:00 [PATCH v9 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme David Lin
2024-03-06 2:00 ` [PATCH v9 1/2] wifi: mwifiex: add host mlme for client mode David Lin
2024-03-16 0:00 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-18 2:00 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-03-18 11:41 ` Francesco Dolcini
2024-03-19 1:36 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-03-06 2:00 ` [PATCH v9 2/2] wifi: mwifiex: add host mlme for AP mode David Lin
2024-03-16 0:45 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-18 2:04 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-04-18 3:37 ` David Lin
2024-03-15 9:49 ` [PATCH v9 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme Francesco Dolcini
2024-03-15 23:59 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-18 11:28 ` Francesco Dolcini
2024-03-19 10:33 ` Kalle Valo
2024-03-20 21:06 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-16 0:49 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-19 12:12 ` Johannes Berg
2024-03-20 0:59 ` David Lin [this message]
2024-03-20 1:10 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-03-20 9:12 ` Johannes Berg
2024-03-20 21:50 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-21 4:07 ` David Lin
2024-03-23 1:06 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-25 16:15 ` Johannes Berg
2024-03-29 10:06 ` David Lin
2024-04-02 17:38 ` Brian Norris
2024-04-10 7:30 ` David Lin
2024-04-10 7:55 ` Johannes Berg
2024-04-10 10:33 ` David Lin
2024-04-10 17:56 ` Johannes Berg
2024-04-11 7:57 ` David Lin
2024-04-11 8:02 ` Johannes Berg
2024-04-10 7:52 ` Johannes Berg
2024-03-25 15:58 ` Johannes Berg
2024-03-29 9:58 ` David Lin
2024-03-18 9:24 ` Kalle Valo
2024-03-19 1:40 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-03-20 21:28 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-21 2:14 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-03-16 0:07 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-18 2:20 ` [EXT] " David Lin
2024-03-18 11:45 ` Francesco Dolcini
2024-03-20 21:13 ` Brian Norris
2024-03-21 2:12 ` David Lin
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