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

Hello,
 Linux wireless is, without any doubt, a very important subject.
Many people show interest in it.

It is good to hear that the third Linux Wireless mini-summit will
occur at OLS, which will give opportunity to  many people (which some
of them don't know much about linux wireless) to attend it (whereas
the two last wireless mini-summits were not part of OLS, as far as I
know).

I want to add that It would be great if part of it (or hopefully, all
of it) will be videoed and put on the web. I am sure that many
(including me) will be glad to watch it. I am sure that making an
effort like this is important and is of interest for the linux
wireless community.

Regards,
Mark Ryden


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:09 PM, John W. Linville
[off-list ref] wrote:

The third Linux Wireless mini-summit will occur on Tuesday July 22,
2008 in Ottawa, just before the Ottawa Linux Symposium.  OLS is
generously supporting Linux mini-summits by providing the room and
projector (http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2008/minisummits.php).
Several vendors are supporting the event by sponsoring their own
employees to attend, and Canonical and Intel have both helped with
travel funds for key community participants as well.

Although it is already a bit late, I would like to re-open discussions
on our agenda for the meeting.  Based on current upstream topics and
those persons whom I expect to be attending, I have cobbled together
an agenda proposal below.  Please review it and feel free to suggest
amendments or alterations, or to elaborate or ask questions about my
proposed schedule of topics.

I look forward to seeing many of you in Ottawa!

John

P.S.  If you intend to attend the event in Ottawa, please send me a
private reply to this note -- even if you believe that I already know
that you are coming! :-)

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3rd Linux Wireless Summit
Ottawa, Canada
22 July 2008

Proposed Agenda

0830    Meet & Greet

       Introductions and opening remarks

0900    Status Reports

       Overview of where things stand today

       - 802.11n

       - QoS/Multiqueue

       - Mesh mode (802.11s)

       - RF kill

1015    Break

1100    Vendor/Distro Round Table

       Representatives from hardware vendors and Linux distributions
       discuss issues around cooperation between themselves and the
       development community, what we are doing well, and what problems we
       are causing for each other.

1200    Lunch/Break (sorry, no funding)

1300    Current Work

       Short presentations/discussions about work in progress

       - encrypted management frames (802.11w)

       - regulatory enforcement (802.11d, CRDA)

       - virtual hardware (mac80211_hwsim)

1445    Break

1500    Future work

       Short presentations/discussions about work that has previously
       been suggested or requested

       - cfg80211/nl80211
               - time to push to replace WEXT?
               - tool enhancements and/or userland support?

       - power management (suspend/resume)

       - lib80211 (code sharing w/ full MAC drivers)

       - rate scaling algorithms
               - minstrel
               - others?

       - userland MLME

       - userland driver implementation

1645    Break

1700    Maintainence Issues

       Round table discussion of issues related to maintenance of
       the wireless trees

       - trivial/cleanup patches
               - testing or other requirements?
               - should they have lower priority?
               - should they require ACKs from primary author?

       - submissions to -stable
               - who should drive it?
               - what policies?

       - rate scaling algs
               - driver-specific ok?  what limitations?
               - build policies (part of mac80211.ko?)

       - questions/suggestions/complaints

1800    Dinner/Break (sorry, no funding)

2000    BoF/Break-out Sessions

       Impromptu and/or unscheduled discussions as desired by group
       participants

--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
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