Re: WIFI Direct‏

["John W. Linville" <linville tuxdriver com>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:47:26AM +0000, Jue Yang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>     I would like to know the progress of NM in WiFi Direct. I had
> mailed for suggestion last year and Dan was very nice to give me some
> advices to start with, but we stop the step of developping WiFi P2P
> driver with some reasons.
>     Now we try to pick it up again and have designed a simple UI
> to control connection between WIFI Direct Peers. But it is just for
> connection, not associated with services or use-cases and mainly
> used to test driver.  So I still want to know the progress of NM and
> wpa_supplicant in WiFi Direct and hope driver can be well used with NM.
>  
>     Thank you very much.
>  
> Yours,
> Sincerely
> Jeanne 		 	   		  

This is a topic of discussion (and an overall motivator) for the
upcoming Linux wireless summit:

	http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Summits/SanFranciscoBayArea-2010

Perhaps you can join us?

John
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