October 10, 2008#
Linux 2.6.27 is out. Our patch rate is increasing, there were about 700 patches in wireless code. The feature rate seems to be slightly decreasing, entirely new features are:
Intel wireless 5000 series support
some RTL8187B support
mac80211_hwsim - virtual 802.11 hardware
some of the rt2x00 drivers can do hardware crypto now
b43 got mesh networking support
Important internal improvements were made:
* mac80211 is entirely multi-queue aware now, with the new multi-queue netdev features
* mac80211 now requires many fewer kmalloc calls -- control information was moved to skb->cb
* mac80211 now creates correct QoS sequence numbers Unfortunately, as of now, aggregation had to be disabled due needing more than just fixups after the multiqueue work.