San Francisco 2010
This event will be September 9-10, 2010 (Thursday-Friday) in San Francisco. Meeting space will be in Marriott Union Square San Francisco at 480 Sutter Street. A group rate at the hotel will be available and more details will be added here soon.
Topics
- Overview of Wi-Fi Alliance
- Wi-Fi Direct (P2P)
- Introduction to the protocol
- Driver requirements
- mac80211 design
- wpa_supplicant/hostapd functionality
- Planning for communication with other than core WLAN components
- cfg80211/mac80211 issues with different channels on different virtual interfaces
- powersaving in multi-interface scenarios
- automated testing of the drivers and Linux WLAN
- extended capabilities and action frame registration (11v)
- define mac80211 callback order (e.g. station notification before/after bss_info_changed?)
- RSN IBSS
- iwlwifi might require knowing this to disable hw group crypto, not sure what happens if simply no key exists
- HT IBSS
- a-MSDU TX support
- usage of BUG_ON in wireless core and drivers
- Improving the relationship with the community on legacy drivers / documentation
Attendees
- Jouni Malinen
- Johannes Berg
- Kalle Valo
- Henry Ptasinski
- Lennert Buytenhek
- Luis R. Rodriguez
- Luciano Coelho
- John Linville