airo with WPA support merge

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:31:00PM +0200, matthieu castet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I added wpa support to airo driver some years ago, but I maintain the 
> support as a OutOfTreeDrivers [1]. I use it everyday in wpa mode.
> 
> It can't be merged in main because the wpa support is selected by a 
> module option. I did this because supporting wpa and other mode together 
> may need a large rewrite of the driver (when I did first 
> experimentation, I got firmware hang if I mix wpa command that use a new 
> firmware API and wep command that use old firmware API).
> 
> 
> But they have been some work to make it ok for main Linux tree [2], but 
> it failed because of some issues [3].
> 
> I don't have time nor interest to continue the work made in [2].
> May be somebody is interested.

Have you asked the linux-wireless developers about this?  That would
sound like their line of development :)

thanks,

greg k-h