Portland 2009

Due to venue space limitations, this is an invitation-only event, colocated with Netconf 2009.

• Notes
  • Staging
  • Compat wireless
  • Trees
  • Radiotap
  • Testing
  • Userland interfaces
  • WiMAX
  • Roaming
  • Peer-to-Peer
  • Auto-connect
  • Loading ucode during probe ?
  • Generic interface to obtain firmware version
  • hwsim testing
  • Bluetooth3
  • Frequency broker
  • uAPSD
  • SM powersave
  • Userspace interface to rfkill
  • Flush

Tentative Schedule

• Coffee and tea is served at 8am, and the meeting will start at 9am on both days.

Saturday September 19, 2009

• how to deal with staging drivers

• how upstream can better serve needs of distributions

• how to leverage distributions for testing/maintenance/etc

• improving userland interfaces / interfacing with userland tools

• how to get more thorough/consistent/timely/broad testing

Sunday September 20, 2009

• what features are we missing? what to do next?

  • Bluetooth 3 wifi transport / mac80211 interaction

  • (u-)APSD implementation / userspace API if necessary

  • Virtual radio enhancements

  • Frequency broker retake

• mac80211-hwsim userspace “air”

• spatial multiplexing powersave

• queue flush before scan/etc. (disassoc?)

• libsupplicant