> From: s...@open-mesh.com
> To: kv...@adurom.com
> CC: openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org; si...@open-mesh.com; malaa...@elisanet.fi
> Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCHv3] wifi: Introduce 802.11ac support
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:22:53 +0100
>
> On Monday 17 February 2014 05:57:25 Kalle Valo wrote:
> > Sven Eckelmann <s...@open-mesh.com> writes:
> > > The ath10k patch wasn't resent because the driver patches are now
> > > integrated in the OpenWrt mac80211 package. The answer in
> > >
> > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.openwrt.devel/22422 also
> > > wasn't>
> > > quite promising.
> >
> > What do you mean? What was wrong with my answer?
>
> Nothing is "wrong" but you said that there are two branches. One is "AP mode,
> nothing else" and the other one is "main branch again has more
> features, like P2P, ...". So I don't see a good reason why a multi-purpose
> system like openwrt should accept my patch to change it to the "AP-only"
> ath10k firmware.
>
> This is the only reason why I've dropped this patch.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sven
I think AP is by far the most common use case for OpenWrt, and DFS support for
example is only for the AP-branch firmware (as I found out after some intense
study of the ath10k/cfg80211/mac80211 source -- maybe the firmware features
should be better documented...). Does AP firmware support plain STA operation?
If it does, AP firmware should no doubt be the default in OpenWrt. If not, then
we should maybe think of a way to support both.
Best regards,
Matti
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