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todo: real AP mode support has been added

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Dan Williams
2013-02-07 17:58:20 -06:00
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@@ -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