Developer Documentation

This section tries to organize documentation for new Linux wireless developers.

Development basics

Essential information on how to hack and contribute to Linux wireless

• Wireless Developer Summits
• MailingLists
• Git-guide
• Using sparse
• IEEE-802.11 standards
• Submitting Patches
• Glossary
• Maintainers
• Current TODO list
• Firmware versioning
• Linux Kernel Wireless (802.11) Implementation

Other interesting information

• Channel List
• IE Order

Driver APIs

Here are all the driver APIs we use to write drivers in Linux:

• Interface-specific methods provided by the driver
• About Wireless-Extensions
• About mac80211
• About cfg80211
• About nl80211
• About specifications
• About Radiotap
• Support for cfg80211 / mac80211 Linux 802.11 drivers on Android
• Modularizing code
• Wireless Quality of Service (QoS)
• Wireless usage of pm-qos

802.11 Development process

Check out the 802.11 development process page for details of how patches get merged into Linux for 802.11 and what trees are used.

Stable monitor list

The stable-pending section is dedicated to the ensuring we propagate critical patches to the stable series of the Linux kernel. Use it to peg commits which you know are important to get merged.