Re: [Madwifi-users] DFS Module

[David B. <dav...@bb...>]

Would you be interested in taking on this task by any chance or do you know
of anyone that might?


-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:pr...@gn...] 
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:37 PM
To: David Burke
Cc: mad...@li...; 'bill bryant'
Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] DFS Module

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 12:02 -0400, David Burke wrote:
> Our company owns a wireless product that uses a "highly modified"
> version of the madwifi driver (whose version is at least five years
> old).  We want to get the dynamic frequency selection (DFS)
> functionality without upgrading to the latest version of madwifi.  

If your company shared your changes, maybe they would have been
incorporated into the driver.  Since you didn't share your changes, it's
entirely up to you to incorporate them into the new versions of MadWifi.

> I wanted to know if anyone is aware of another way to incorporate the
> DFS functionality without replacing the entire driver.  Something like
> a separate DFS module whereby we could just call DFS functions from
> our existing code would be great.

I think it's totally unrealistic.  If you look at the differences
between the trunk and the DFS branch, it's 160k of changes all over the
place.  And the DFS branch doesn't add DFS support, it just provides
improvements.

If you want DFS functionality to be in one module, you'll need to the
rewrite the DFS code in a way that makes it modular.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin