Hi Marcel, Thanks for the reply. So, I going to start doing it.
Regards, Flávio Ceolin On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 07:03 -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Flavio, > > > I've working in a project using using using wifi-direct (p2p), and I > > planning implementing it on connman, I saw that there is an item in the > > TODO about it. > > > > So, my plan is create a new technology wifi_p2p, the implementation and > > behaviour should be pretty similar to wifi technology. It will be > > necessary add support for p2p in the existent gsupplicant code. > > As the p2p, the idea is cover just a small set of functions for now, for > > connect we'll use just the push button control (PBC) method. The > > connection will be done without use the Group concept, I mean, both > > peers will use the command connect and one of them will be chosen the > > Group Owner, instead of one Peer create a Group and the other Peer join > > into this Group. The reason for this is that according with the wpa > > developers to use Group Add + Join is not the recommended way. > > so I am not sure that a new technology wifi_p2p is a good idea, but I > could be wrong here. It is just a feeling that this might not be the > best approach. However this should not stop you from trying. So go ahead > here and we see where it leads us. Just make sure that you send RFC > patches early. So you get more eyes on it. > > And for GSupplicant support for P2P, that sounds like a good idea > anyway. So I would start with that. Maybe at that point it also becomes > a lot clearer on how P2P fits into legacy WiFi networks in a clean way > without breaking everything else. > > Regards > > Marcel > > > _______________________________________________ > connman mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman _______________________________________________ connman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
