Status of the open80211s project

[Javier Cardona]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:33 AM,  <Thomas.Peter2 at swisscom.com> wrote:
> This is my first mail to this mailing list. I hope I'm doing this right.
> I'm running a little project at my company to evaluate the current
> performance of open80211s. You're code and instructions have been very
> useful and all the things that are supposed to work are working fine. Your
> work is heavily appreciated.

Thanks!

> I have skimmed through this entire mailing list and have found two replies
> for which I'd like to know whether they are still up-to-date. The first
> reply is from April 5, 2009. Javier wrote "We've run out of funding for this
> project, so you won't see implementations [...] coming from us anytime
> soon." The second one is from July 17, 2008. Luis Carlos wrote "Hi, thanks
> for your interest in o11s. As the project has been fully integrated in
> wireless-testing I would recommend you posting this problems at
> linux-wireless."
>
> My question is: Are the two above statements still up-to-date? Or to be more
> precise:
> 1) Are you not developing open80211s any further and will there be no new
> releases of open80211s in the near future?

That is correct.  We are in conversations with a few companies who
might be interested in funding additional development, but nothing is
concrete at this time.  (In fact, now that I've mentioned this in a
public mailing list, probably this won't happen :)

> 2) Does the reply from July 17, 2008 mean, that the development of IEEE
> 802.11s support for mac80211 is now being continued at linux-wireless?

You will find some discussions on that mailing list, essentially
related to bug fixes and how to keep open80211s operational as people
work on other areas of the 802.11 stack.

> Thank you for your answers!

You are welcome!

Cheers,

Javier

> Thomas
>
> PS: I append the two replies I'm referring to here for completeness:
>
> From javier at cozybit.com  Sun Apr  5 21:06:48 2009
> From: javier at cozybit.com (Javier Cardona)
> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 18:06:48 -0700
> Subject: FAQ?
> In-Reply-To: <1238935270.19498.11.camel at localhost.localdomain>
> References: <1238935270.19498.11.camel at localhost.localdomain>
> Message-ID: <445f43ac0904051806l2bfee550vc42c5dbf97643cde at mail.gmail.com>
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> [...]
>
> We've run out of funding for this project, so you won't see
> implementations of 2) and 3) coming from us anytime soon.  But we'll
> be happy to assist anyone willing to address these shortcomings.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Javier
> --
> Javier Cardona
> cozybit Inc.
>
>
> From luisca at cozybit.com  Thu Jul 17 10:54:20 2008
> From: luisca at cozybit.com (Luis Carlos Cobo)
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:54:20 +0200
> Subject: question about open11s installation
> In-Reply-To: <da2e1ddd0807170614j1fea8550x4f8bcac1dc4c8d7f at mail.gmail.com>
> References: <da2e1ddd0807170614j1fea8550x4f8bcac1dc4c8d7f at mail.gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <1216306460.12143.31.camel at localhost>
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 22:14 +0900, ??? wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> Hi, thanks for your interest in o11s. As the project has been fully
> integrated in wireless-testing I would recommend you posting this
> problems at linux-wireless [1].
> [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/MailingLists
> --
> Luis Carlos Cobo Rus       GnuPG ID: 44019B60
> cozybit Inc.
>
>
> Thomas Peter
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Javier Cardona
cozybit Inc.
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