==== Notes ==== There are [[en/developers/Summits/SanFranciscoBayArea-2010/notes|notes from this summit]]. ==== San Francisco 2010 ==== This event will be September 9-10, 2010 (Thursday-Friday) in San Francisco. Meeting space will be in Marriott Union Square San Francisco at 480 Sutter Street. A group rate of $159/night at the hotel is available for two nights (September 9-11) with group code "wifwifa". Direct link to the reservation page: [[http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sfous?groupCode=wifwifa&app=resvlink&fromDate=9/9/10&toDate=9/11/10|http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sfous?groupCode=wifwifa&app=resvlink&fromDate=9/9/10&toDate=9/11/10]] ==== Topics ==== * Overview of Wi-Fi Alliance * [[https://www.wi-fi.org/draft_specifications.php|Wi-Fi Direct]] (P2P) * * Introduction to the protocol * * Driver requirements * * mac80211 design * * wpa_supplicant/hostapd functionality * * Planning for communication with other than core WLAN components * cfg80211/mac80211 issues with different channels on different virtual interfaces * Enabling more spectrum availability when roaming through [[GeoClue|GeoClue]], passing accuracy values to the kernel for regulatory hints * Requirements for wireless-regdb patches * powersaving in multi-interface scenarios * automated testing of the drivers and Linux WLAN * define mac80211 callback order (e.g. station notification before/after bss_info_changed?) * RSN IBSS * * iwlwifi might require knowing this to disable hw group crypto, not sure what happens if simply no key exists * GTK handling in mac80211 * HT IBSS * a-MSDU TX support * usage of BUG_ON in wireless core and drivers * Improving the relationship with the community on legacy drivers / documentation ==== Schedule ==== The meeting room will be "Union Square North". Dining will be in the adjacent "Union Square South". === Thursday === |**Time** |**Session** |**Owner** | |7:30 - 9:00 |**Breakfast** || |9:00 - 9:30 |Welcome, introduction, agenda bashing |Linville | |9:30 - 10:30 |WFA Overview, P2P introduction |Jouni/Henry | |10:30 - 11:00 |**Break** || |11:00 - 11:30 |P2P demo; mac80211/wpa_supplicant design ([[http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=summary|code upstream]]!) |Jouni | |11:30 - 12:00 |P2P UI, user space next step |Jouni | |12:00 - 13:00 |**Lunch** || |13:00 - 14:00 |P2P virtual interfaces, power saving, etc. needed functionality |Jouni | |14:00 - 15:00 |multi-channel operation in cfg80211/mac80211 |Johannes | |15:00 - 15:30 |**Break** || |15:30 - 16:00 |[[http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless-regdb|Requirements for wireless-regdb patches]] |Linville/Luis | |16:00 - 16:30 |World roaming and [[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue|GeoClue]] |Luis | |16:30 - 17:00 |Backporting |Johannes | |17:00 - 18:00 |Automated [[WiFi|WiFi]] Testing (use [[http://autotest.kernel.org/|Autotest]]) |[[SamLeffler|SamLeffler]] | === Friday === |**Time** |**Session** |**Owner** | |7:30 - 9:00 |**Breakfast** || |09:00 - 10:30 |Legacy drivers support / documentation |Luis | |10:30 - 11:00 |**Break** || |11:00 - 12:00 |Maintainer Issues / Community Relations |Linville | |12:00 - 13:00 |**Lunch** || |13:00 - 14:00 | Specialized APIs | Felix / Johannes ? | |14:00 - 15:00 |powersaving bcast / mcast / multichannel |Luis / Johannes | |15:00 - 15:30 |**Break** || |15:30 - 16:00 |IBSS issues (RSN/GTKs, HT) |Johannes | ==== Attendees ==== * - Jouni Malinen * - Johannes Berg * - Kalle Valo * - Henry Ptasinski * - Lennert Buytenhek * - Luis R. Rodriguez * - Luciano Coelho * - John Linville * - Brett Rudley * - Wey-Yi Guy * - Ajit Pal Singh * - Nohee Ko * - Tim Gardner * - Jason Young * - Sam Leffler * - Paul Stewart * - Irfan Sheriff * - Dimitry Shmidt * - Abhijeet Kolekar * - Ajay Gupta * - Cyrille Vignon * - Gery Kahn * - Rik Logan * - Jayant Sane * - Guru * - Howard Harte * - Felix Fietkau * - Ohad Ben-Cohen * - Francois Amand * - Nicolas Petit * - Vipin Mehta