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