From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 16:38:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919A61065674 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:38:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584218FC12 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dadr6 with SMTP id r6so541574dad.13 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:38:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=r6H5w2kQfpjORgO3wX7P+4n7jZC/wY3kMUoSMob3aVI=; b=uDw3BeCmU3D0rCwp/zFNHW7hrLeuynHeuExd5Yv3wFOXSwXqjpHfjssL/iwxPjhbrB iQesBW6TD9OniMbjt75T311ZbjmCXGNZPr2cDEEeOdYGVooT4JS4/NXeIA+KsAjpW55z hZNXLKuabh5Mr4/OckyX4+PPSUEaq1P/+daS65qVldzqonWpobnTioDmBUcNEsR15Gjk 4vbhdgS7AcbQYEI/Zu3QfA+QEZyQ5jOtMiYkMwGOHyJLs0Mork9CbYxQdfdsZfZUlde1 yjOZ4J4DCOtNkLhIcchSMFNDaYwM+GwRWphQw/vpVa6XCze5aqIhlqQdgb2B+Tqiwb2r RDqQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.66.85.4 with SMTP id d4mr4595230paz.11.1346258304917; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.68.36.106 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:38:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <475A4E02EFF4724A9E58F55A56AC1316066D8665@APEVS1.ap.ci.root> References: <475A4E02EFF4724A9E58F55A56AC13160641D618@APEVS1.ap.ci.root> <475A4E02EFF4724A9E58F55A56AC13160661E6AC@APEVS1.ap.ci.root> <475A4E02EFF4724A9E58F55A56AC13160661F137@APEVS1.ap.ci.root> <475A4E02EFF4724A9E58F55A56AC131606667F85@APEVS1.ap.ci.root> <475A4E02EFF4724A9E58F55A56AC131606692EA4@APEVS1.ap.ci.root> <475A4E02EFF4724A9E58F55A56AC1316066D8665@APEVS1.ap.ci.root> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:38:24 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: -80aAZOP8hbvGH8FJfBeuYNHosw Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: "Wright, Brett" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, Kim Culhan Subject: Re: Atheros DFS radar detection X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:38:25 -0000 On 28 August 2012 21:32, Wright, Brett wrote: >> Of course, it'd be really great if someone signed up for working on a >> BSD licenced radar pattern detector.. :) > > So what would be needed to get something based on the GPL licensed (i.e. > madwifi) pattern detector across to BSD license. The rules and > legalities of this make my head spin! Any suggestions? I'd honestly suggest just starting again, based on both the madwifi and the Linux ath9k DFS pattern matching module. The basic pattern matching technique isn't that hard. Dealing with false positives is the tricky bit. If someone does this, I'll even push to get the FFT data available (AR9130 and later, sorry!) so you can do accurate chirp detection. I'll even go through the carrier codebases and find all of the HAL DFS work arounds and commit them to the tree. Thanks, Adrian