Linux Wireless

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Development basics

Wireless Developer Summits
MailingLists - Subscribe to our mailing lists
Git-guide - learn to use git, emphasis on Linux wireless
Using sparse - learn to use sparse
IEEE-802.11 standards - standards we use and interpretations to help development
SubmittingPatches - guide on how to submit patches for Linux wireless work
Glossary - terms we use throughout the wiki you should be familiar with
Maintainers - maintainers of current wireless drivers and driver APIs
todo-list - Our current TODO list
Firmware versioning - Suggested firmware versioning rules
Linux Kernel Wireless (802.11) Implementation - some implementation details

Here are all the driver APIs we use to write drivers in Linux:

Wireless-Extensions - old wireless driver framework
mac80211 - wireless driver API for SoftMAC devices
cfg80211 - new driver configuration API
nl80211 - new userspace ←→ kernelspace wireless driver communication transport
Hardware Specifications - specifications for chipsets we support or will support soon
Radiotap - For 802.11 frame injection/reception
Support for Android - if you want to know how to add support for Android
Howto modularize code - Examples of how we expect you to modularize code

Check out the 802.11 development process page for details of how patches get merged into Linux for 802.11 and what trees are used.