On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:25 PM, K-man <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > I am trying to understand how WiFi works on the Android system. I saw > a couple of great posts online and have dug into the code myself to > start understanding what is going on. > > I've referenced the following link: > http://blog.linuxconsulting.ro/2010/04/porting-wifi-drivers-to-android.html > > My understanding so far, based on the code is that higher level > Android stuff talks to wifi.c, which talks to wpa_supplicant. Does > wpa_supplicant talk to the drivers that are loaded in the kernel > directly to do what it needs to do?
Yes, it does. Sometimes through ioctls > The higher level question is, > where does the Android code talk to the WiFi drivers (if it does at > all? like i said, im relatively new to Linux)? Like I said through ioctls sometimes. And you would like to understand WEXT code also...... > > Thanks, > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- Thanks, Viral Mehta -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
