Effort Stalled

[gregory-nutt]

This effort is stalled. These are the primary obstacles:

1. The BSD IEEE 802.11 code is quite large. I am not certain if it can be made practical in a deeply embedded system. Certainly with need to be put on a diet and made much smaller.
2. But, in order to reduce the size, you would need more 802.11 expertise than I have. The code is not heavily commented so you really need to understand the significance of all of the low level, uncommented bit field operations.

I tried separating the ieee80211 code into another "mini802" directory and disabling features. I disable AP and HT. The size was only slightly smaller... not small enough to lose AP functionality for.

1. I still do not understand the interfaces between the ieee80211 blob and the rest of the OS. The user interface layer is not such a big problem, but the device level interface layer is fragmentary (mostly missing) and not well understood.