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.

• MailingLists - Subscribe to our mailing lists

• Git-guide - learn to use git, emphasis on Linux wireless

• IEEE-802.11 standards - standards we use and interpretations to help development

• SubmittingPatches - guide on how to submit patches for Linux wireless work

• Glossary - terms we use throughout the wiki you should be familiar with

• Maintainers - maintainers of current wireless drivers and driver APIs

• todo-list - Our current TODO list

Driver APIs

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

• Wireless-Extensions - old wireless driver framework

• mac80211 - wireless driver API for SoftMAC devices

• cfg80211 - new driver configuration API

• nl80211 - new userspace <–> kernelspace wireless driver communication transport

• Hardware Specifications - specifications for chipsets we support or will support soon

• Radiotap - For 802.11 frame injection/reception

ChangeLog

Here you see the list of changes to all wireless drivers, the wireless core and mac80211.

Everything branch

This is the branch a lot of new items are thrown into which still need some work. Developers should work off of this branch.

• Driver changes

• Wireless core changes

• mac80211 changes

Master branch

This is things John has pushed out to Jeff Garzik or David Miller. Once Jeff or Dave push out their changes to Linus then its only a matter of time before we'll get these changes on the next stable kernel release.

• Driver changes

• Wireless core changes

• mac80211 changes