Re: [PATCH 10/10] [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2023-10-26 at 12:49 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On 10/26/23 00:27, Witold Baryluk wrote:
> > > I might be interested in modernizing the driver, but I have no idea
> > > how much effort it would be (in terms of changed fraction of code).
> > > 20k LOC is neither small or big, and not obvious (a lot of it would
> > > be unchanged), if it is a week of work, or months of work.
> > 
> > Hi Witold,
> > 
> > I am trying to do this with rtl8192e.
> > One possibility is to take the following patch series as a starting point:
> > https://yhbt.net/lore/all/1414604649-9105-1-git-send-email-tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > For me as a beginner and hobbyist this is a huge task. I am happy when
> > I can finish it until next summer.
> 
> We also have some docs available:
> 
> https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/80211/
> 
> And I also recommend looking at our hwsim driver as that gives a good
> idea how a simple mac80211 driver works:
> 

FWIW, I don't think this can be ported to mac80211 - only cfg80211. It's
a fullMAC device.

johannes