Re: Support for Android for mac80211 / cfg80211 802.11 drivers

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Bob Copeland [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

We get poked every now and then for Android support for mac80211 or
cfg80211 drivers. Since the questions is quite common I figured It'd
be good to document what needs to get done for this. Android folks,
you listening?

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/Android

If you already have worked on this or are going to please feel free to
update the wiki so no one else re-invents the wheel.

I don't think it's good to advocate a custom driver.  They should be able
to use stock wpa_supplicant w/ nl80211 and put the extensions in the
hardware layer.

Can you elaborate?

 Luis