Re: Help wanted on porting a library from Linux to FreeBSD

I will have available to me as much time as is required. A year or even
more. I guess the project can be delivered in certain portions. So the
initial milestone could be something to show off in the thesis. The other
parts of the work could be done afterwards. Time is not a problem here.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 9:00 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, Artem Hevorhian wrote:
>
> > The "library" is just a demonstration of how netlink events are used in
> > communicating the state of the wifi subsystem on Linux. I would like to
> > implement the same kernel backend for FreeBSD. The "library" uses libmnl,
> > but I can use raw netlink sockets, it's not a problem. The problem is the
> > lack of support (which I would like to fix) for working with nl80211
> > netlink on FreeBSD.
>
> Okay.
>
> > I understand that you say that most of the code is
> > already there, I will have a look at that.
>
> native code; not nl80211.
>
> > But I guess that the overall
> > functionality of driving your wifi module (scan feature) from the
> userspace
> > with the help of asking the kernel to do it from the kernel space is a
> good
> > idea.
>
> I think scan is a demonstrator and probably a good start for such a project
> but by far not in any reality what needs to be implemented.
>
> I don't know how much time you'll have avail for your masters.
>
> I know we (Adrian, I, etc) had some discussions on the interface and
> versioning etc. and what Linux had done.  I'd be curious what others
> think about going down that road?
>
> /bz
>
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> Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7
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