NOTE: this page is for archival only, see the note at the end of the page.

Developer Documentation

This section tries to organize documentation for new Linux wireless developers.

Development basics

Essential information on how to hack and contribute to Linux wireless

Other interesting information

Driver APIs

Here are all the driver APIs we use to write drivers in Linux:

802.11 Development process

Check out the 802.11 development process page for details of how patches get merged into Linux for 802.11 and what trees are used.

Stable monitor list

The stable-pending section is dedicated to the ensuring we propagate critical patches to the stable series of the Linux kernel. Use it to peg commits which you know are important to get merged.


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