2014-04-23 13:41 GMT+02:00, José Vázquez <ppvazquez...@gmail.com>:
> 2014-04-23 11:40 GMT+02:00, Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org>:
>> On 2014-04-23 11:31, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>>> Quick update on this subject: Linksys has now posted a GPL source for
>>> the WRT1900AC, and it contains the wifi driver sources.
>>> It appears to me, that this driver was properly licensed under GPL, with
>>> proper license headers in all source files.
>>>
>>> This means that work on supporting this device can theoretically
>>> continue, although I expect it to take quite a bit of time. As I
>>> anticipated, the code quality of the driver source code is abysmal.
>>> This looks like rewrite (not cleanup) material, ugly enough to cause eye
>>> cancer or frighten small children ;)
>>>
>>> There are also still some pieces missing: Since this driver does not use
>>> standard Linux Wireless APIs, it can only properly function with custom
>>> hostapd/wpa_supplicant hacks. I don't see those in the release.
>> Update 2: Those can be found in the OpenWrt SDK for this device on
>> GitHub. Same comments regarding code quality apply here.
>>
>> - Felix
>
> I don't know if any of the OpenWRT developers or contributors have
> this router. If yes, my opinion is to add support for the board using
> the patches sent by Matthew Fatheree as base, reworking them and drop
> wireless support for now until they (Marvell or Belkin) develop a
> cfg80211 or mac80211 compatible wireless driver. In other
> circumstances maybe would be a good idea to spend time developing a
> driver for the Avastar family but i think that if they say that the
> WRT1900ac has support for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, DebWRT or any other it
> should be their job.
Correction: if nobody have this router another option could be take
Matthew's patches
> (without the binary blob), correct them, test if can be compiled without
> problems, include
> them and add initial support marking @BROKEN.
>
> Of course this is my own opinion and i don't have all the information,
> so, if this is the case my apologies to OpenWRT developers, Matthew
> Fatheree and Belkin International,Inc
>
> José Vázquez
>
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