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Zeeb" To: Artem Hevorhian cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help wanted on porting a library from Linux to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0x14003F198FEFA3E77207EE8D2B58B8F83CCF1842 List-Id: Discussions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, Artem Hevorhian wrote: Hi, > Hello everyone, I would like to port this library > https://github.com/bmegli/wifi-scan over to FreeBSD. Could maybe bz@ help > me by mentoring me in this direction? I've spoken with melifaro@, he has an > estimate of 3 months for this job. I would like to do that. By what software is that "library" used? I would assume most of the code for it is in lib80211/ifconfig and it's a day job to replace the nl80211 with nativ code. Given you mentioned melifaro and 3 months I assume you want to implement an nl80211 interface for FreeBSD instead? So let me ask, what's the real purpose for the project? /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7