December 3, 2009

2.6.32 has been released with 1020 patches touching wireless code.

Among the changes a few worth noting:

• lots of wl1251 fixes, support for the 1271 chip

• orinoco begins conversion to cfg80211

• b43 LP PHY support (BCM4312 devices)

• almost all mac80211 callbacks can now sleep (configure_filter was made able to)

• rndis_wlan uses cfg80211

• rtl8187 got rfkill switch support

• ath9k gets AR9287 support and a large number of enhancements

• wireless is now network namespace aware

• nl80211 testmode command for factory testing/calibration

• nl80211 reports BSS status

• cfg80211 gains the ability to connect to APs

• cfg80211 finally verifies that changing channel won’t interfere with operation

• cfg80211 drivers now can also parse country IEs

• mac80211 no longer depends on wireless extensions

• mac80211 scanning is much improved

• mac80211 has a tracer now for driver interaction

• mac80211 no longer creates the master netdev wmaster0

• mac80211 dynamic power save default set to 100ms

• mac80211 Mesh enhancements and config IE updated to match 802.11s draft 3.02

• improvements and fixes for mac80211 resume

• improvements to mac80211’s connection loss detection Quite a number of changes, and not small changes either – for example the ability for cfg80211 to emulate wireless extensions fully now or the LP PHY support in b43.