June XX, 2009
This time around, more than 900 patches related to wireless went into the next version of Linux. Besides lots of internal cleanups, notable new features are:
rt2x00 now supports powersave (use iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500ms to enable)
- rt2x00 now supports mesh (point/portal) and WDS operation
- ath9k now supports mesh point operation
- mac80211 IBSS can be fixed to channel/BSSID for those who can't use 802.11s mesh but need layer 3 mesh
- mac80211 now re-aligns frames where necessary to avoid unaligned IP payload for platforms that are not capable of processing such frames
- mac80211 can support 802.11w (protected management frames), however the only driver currently supporting it is ath9k (other drivers just need testing)
- mac80211 now deconfigures/reconfigures the device during suspend/resume
- iwlwifi now supports 1000/6000 hw series
cfg80211/nl80211 support scanning (iw dev wlan0 scan)
- mac80211 now supports aggregation with iwlwifi again (broken since 2.6.27)
(up to 3e241ff0c57cb610301009fe8c3b9da4c6877800)