[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH RFC] broadcom-wl: use CCMP by default for WPA (version 1)

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 3 December 2014 at 09:27, John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org> wrote:
> On 03/12/2014 07:10, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> Honestly, I don't know what is this file for. I don't understand
>> netifd & wireless well at all. I asked for help in the Request for
>> any netifd wireless documentation e-mail thread, but ppl who know
>> /things/ ignored me.
>
> can you narrow down your questions to specific things you don't
> understand ? a global "i don't understand it" is hard to resolve.
>
> in general there are 2 files
>
> * /lib/wifi/*.sh - the legacy layer used for probing the hw during
> "wifi detect"
> * /lib/netfid/wireless/*.sh the new netifd wifi layer
>
> which of the 2 is causing /problems/

There are some questions I posted in the mentioned e-mail:

On 18 November 2014 at 12:19, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can see multiple files:
> /sbin/wifi
> /lib/wifi/mac80211.sh
> /lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh
> /lib/netifd/hostapd.sh
> but they mostly don't contain any comments.
>
> I'm not sure how much it's worth to list unclear parts of that.
>
> It's confusing to have /lib/netifd/ and /lib/wifi/. It's confusing to
> have two APIs (inconsistent callbacks). I can't understand why even
> for mac80211.sh we keep detecting code in /lib/wifi/. There isn't
> anything documented in the /lib/netifd/netifd-wireless.sh. I have no
> idea how netifd <-> scripts communication works. What is handled in
> scripts and what in netifd?

You say that /lib/wifi/*sh is legacy layer. I can understand we need
it for Broadcom or similar. But what's the point of having mac80211
there?

Also why do we have something like /lib/netifd/hostapd.sh? Isn't
wireless stuff supposed to be in /lib/netifd/wireless/?

-- 
Rafał
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