San Francisco 2010#

This event will be September 9-10, 2010 (Thursday-Friday) in San Francisco. Meeting space will be in Marriott Union Square San Francisco at 480 Sutter Street. A group rate of $159/night at the hotel is available for two nights (September 9-11) with group code “wifwifa”. Direct link to the reservation page: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sfous?groupCode=wifwifa&app=resvlink&fromDate=9/9/10&toDate=9/11/10

Topics#

Overview of Wi-Fi Alliance
Wi-Fi Direct (P2P)
- Introduction to the protocol
- Driver requirements
- mac80211 design
- wpa_supplicant/hostapd functionality
- Planning for communication with other than core WLAN components
cfg80211/mac80211 issues with different channels on different virtual interfaces
Enabling more spectrum availability when roaming through GeoClue, passing accuracy values to the kernel for regulatory hints
Requirements for wireless-regdb patches
powersaving in multi-interface scenarios
automated testing of the drivers and Linux WLAN
define mac80211 callback order (e.g. station notification before/after bss_info_changed?)
RSN IBSS
- iwlwifi might require knowing this to disable hw group crypto, not sure what happens if simply no key exists
GTK handling in mac80211
HT IBSS
a-MSDU TX support
usage of BUG_ON in wireless core and drivers
Improving the relationship with the community on legacy drivers / documentation

The meeting room will be “Union Square North”. Dining will be in the adjacent “Union Square South”.

Time	Session	Owner
7:30 - 9:00	Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30	Welcome, introduction, agenda bashing	Linville
9:30 - 10:30	WFA Overview, P2P introduction	Jouni/Henry
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	P2P demo; mac80211/wpa_supplicant design (code upstream!)	Jouni
11:30 - 12:00	P2P UI, user space next step	Jouni
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:00	P2P virtual interfaces, power saving, etc. needed functionality	Jouni
14:00 - 15:00	multi-channel operation in cfg80211/mac80211	Johannes
15:00 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 16:00	Requirements for wireless-regdb patches	Linville/Luis
16:00 - 16:30	World roaming and GeoClue	Luis
16:30 - 17:00	Backporting	Johannes
17:00 - 18:00	Automated WiFi Testing (use Autotest)	SamLeffler

Time	Session	Owner
7:30 - 9:00	Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30	Legacy drivers support / documentation	Luis
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Maintainer Issues / Community Relations	Linville
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:00	Specialized APIs	Felix / Johannes ?
14:00 - 15:00	powersaving bcast / mcast / multichannel	Luis / Johannes
15:00 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 16:00	IBSS issues (RSN/GTKs, HT)	Johannes