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todo: nl80211 work is finished

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@ -41,24 +41,6 @@ attribute from the sysfs directory for the ATM interface on 2.6.38.8 and later
kernels).
* Convert WEXT code to nl80211
There's still some WEXT code in NetworkManager for signal strength reporting,
mode, frequency, BSSID, etc. This should all get converted to nl80211 code,
possibly using libnl as a base. It's not particularly hard, but some
investigation on how to talk to netlink and how to use nl80211 and netlink
attributes will need to be done. Tools like 'iw' already do much of this work,
but we *cannot* copy & paste code from them since the 'iw' license is not
compatible with NetworkManager's GPL license. For exmaple, the following code
does the job, but should be reworked a bit to use the internal synchronous
netlink connection from src/nm-netlink-manager.c instead of doing the
netlink communication on its own with genl_connect() and such:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-September/msg00214.html
The same approach should be taken for signal strength reporting, etc.
* Real Access Point mode support
Now that NetworkManager requires wpa_supplicant 0.7.x or later, we can add