Re: CVS commit: src/sys/net80211

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi,

David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 08:39:29AM +0000, Maxime Villard wrote:
> > Module Name:	src
> > Committed By:	maxv
> > Date:		Tue Jan 16 08:39:29 UTC 2018
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	src/sys/net80211: ieee80211_input.c
> > 
> 
> ...
> 
> IMO, changes like this are important and overdue, however, do keep in
> mind the provenance of this code: NetBSD -> FreeBSD.
> 
> Maybe you have written off ever re-synching with FreeBSD?  If so, do
> you have a plan for integrating useful features like virtual stations
> independently of their code?

I can just echo this part.  It is completely unrealistic that NetBSD can
maintain its own 802.11 stack these days.  A better approach would be to
sync the code with FreeBSD and treat is as an upstream, trying to merge
the fixes back there.  Not sure if diverging will help syncing the code.

IMO, 802.11n (and there is some FreeBSD code for 802.11ac) is much more
useful feature, as it would allow NetBSD users to use decent WiFI speeds.
Currently supported throughput is pretty miserable for these days..

-- 
Mindaugas