From b59785751de2a13e601f8ddcb049b780d09e6978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 17:58:20 -0600 Subject: todo: real AP mode support has been added --- TODO | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'TODO') diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index cdea070d00..3da9d725a9 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -34,25 +34,6 @@ NM_STATE_CONNECTED_LOCAL, NM_STATE_CONNECTED_SITE, or NM_STATE_CONNECTED_GLOBAL based on it and the device's state. -* Real Access Point mode support - -Now that NetworkManager requires wpa_supplicant 0.7.x or later, we can add -full Access Point (AP) mode support. NetworkManager currently implements -connection sharing via AdHoc mode support, which has some limitations. Instead, -we should check whether the wifi device supports AP mode, and if so, use -that mode instead. wpa_supplicant has support for a "lightweight AP" mode which -we should use. Witold Sowa started this support a while ago and wrote the new -D-Bus API for wpa_supplicant that makes all this possible, but some NM pieces -are still missing. If the wifi driver supports AP mode, then in -src/supplicant-manager/ NM should send an AP-mode config instead of sending -the adhoc config. - -Note that some devices (airo, ipw2100, ipw2200, iwl3945, iwl4965, atmel, zd1201) -will never support AP mode due to firmware limitations, so we clearly must still -provide Ad-Hoc connection sharing support for those devices and switch between -Ad-Hoc and AP mode depending on device capabilities. - - * Implement NM_DEVICE_STATE_DISCONNECTING To allow for "pre-down" scenarios, this state should be implemented before a -- cgit v1.2.1