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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

Topics

  • Overview of Wi-Fi Alliance
  • 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, 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 (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 Requirements for wireless-regdb patches Linville/Luis
16:00 - 16:30 World roaming and GeoClue Luis
16:30 - 17:00 Backporting Johannes
17:00 - 18:00 Automated WiFi Testing (use Autotest) 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
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