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==== 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
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