September ..., 2009
With again almost 600 patches related to wireless, the new 2.6.31 kernel comes with many wireless changes:
- iwlwifi continues unification between 3945 and AGN hardware
the often-discussed rfkill rewrite, along with rfkill integration into cfg80211
rndis_wlan starts using cfg80211 as the first full-MAC driver
- iwlwifi support for 3x3 802.11n hardware
- cfg80211 now handles connecting to an ad-hoc network (including wext support)
- initial support for rt2800usb, but still experimental
- a new wl12xx driver for the TI 1251 B/G chip
- ath5k has enabled AP mode
- the hwsim driver can now separate its virtual radios into groups to allow testing mesh topologies
- there's a new driver for new Intel integrated full-MAC hardware, also using cfg80211