> Why yet another attempt to write 802.11 stack? Sure, the one currently > in the kernel is unusable and everybody knows about it. But why not to > improve code opensourced by Devicescape some time ago instead of > inventing the wheel again and again? Yes, I know that code is not > perfect and needs a lot of work, but it is the best piece of code we > have available now. And it _does_ support WPA and such - in fact, it > is nearly complete. > > Please take a look at http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jbenc/
We're not writing an entire stack. We're writing a layer that sits in between the current ieee80211 stack that's already present in the kernel and drivers that do not have a hardware MAC. Since ieee80211 is already in use in the kernel today, this seemed like a natural and useful extension to the existing code. I agree that it's somewhat wasteful to keep rewriting 802.11 stacks and we considered other options, but it seemed like a more logical choice to work with what was available and recommended than to use an external stack.
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