On 01/01/15 11:56, Andreas Hartmann wrote:

Arend van Spriel wrote:

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On 12/31/14 16:14, Andreas Hartmann wrote:

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All in all:
If you want to get rid of wext, you still have to go a *very* long way
to get the same *stable* and high throughput quality with *all* chips
depending on mac80211 and not just a few flagship drivers like Atheros.

Hi Andreas,

That's a nice list of unrelated stuff. This has all nothing to do with
WEXT. Actually, you can build rt5572sta with cfg80211 support
(RT_CFG80211_SUPPORT).

You seem to know sources I don't know off. Could you please tell me,
where to find them?

I have DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.0.1_20120629 which doesn't compile with
HAS_CFG80211_SUPPORT=y because -DCONFIG_AP_SUPPORT, on which
RT_CFG80211_SUPPORT relies, is broken.

DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.1.3_20121022 removed the necessary broken AP
code completely.

Nice.

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This thread is about the configuration API and
not about driver performance.

I know.

I tried to show, why WEXT as a whole is still necessary even if there is
a mac80211 based driver, because of the weakness of rt2800usb:
Nip it in the bud.

Yes. WEXT needs to stay for a while. Not arguing that. Just saying this 
is really about cfg80211 providing "WEXT compatibility" so WEXT 
user-space apps can interact with cfg80211-based drivers and how to come 
up with a plan to phase out "WEXT compatibility", not WEXT.

Regards,
Arend

Kind regards,
Andreas