Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
If you've ever used an embedded Linux development device with wireless networking, you've likely benefited from the work of Marcel Holtmann, the maintainer of the BlueZ Bluetooth daemon since 2004, who spoke at an Embedded Linux Conference Europe panel in October.
In 2007 Holtmann joined Intel's Open Source Technology Center (OTC), where he created ConnMan (Internet connectivity), oFono (cellular telephony), and PACrunner (proxy handling). Over the last year, Holtmann and other OTC developers have been developing a replacement for the wpa_supplicant WiFi daemon called IWD (Internet Wireless Daemon). In the process, they have streamlined the entire Linux communications stack.
"We decided to create a wireless daemon that actually works on IoT devices," said Holtmann in the presentation called "New Wireless Daemon for Linux."
The IWD is now mostly complete, featuring a smaller footprint and more streamlined workflow than wpa_supplicant while adding support for the latest wireless technologies. The daemon was also developed with the help of the OTC's Denis Kenzior, Andrew Zaborowski, Tim Kourt, Rahul Rahul, and Mat Martineau.
Source: https://www.linux.com/news/event/elce/2017/new-linux-wifi-daemon-streamlines-networking-stack
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday January 17 2017, @09:02PM
What I find interesting is that it comes from an Open Source, which implies that we may actually have source to work with instead of blobs and binaries.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Tuesday January 17 2017, @09:56PM
Nope.
Blobs are dictated by chipset managers. (and to some extent by the FCC).
Best thing this daemon can do is marshal those blobs in a way that might actually work.
Summary is long on names of contributors and names of projects,
I wish submitters/editors could cut that crap to the bone. I don't care what OTHER projects they worked on, or what other universities the worked at, or what conferences they spoke at. All that is tl;dr stuff.
Meanwhile we are all left guessing as to how it works.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by RS3 on Tuesday January 17 2017, @10:12PM
It won't matter, it'll soon be merged into the real gobble-everything blob (like in the movie "The Blob"): systemd.