<> = About nl80211 = nl80211 is the new 802.11 netlink interface public header. Together with [[en/developers/Documentation/cfg80211|cfg80211]] it is intended to replace Wireless-Extensions. nl80211 and [[en/developers/Documentation/cfg80211|cfg80211]] still under development. = Users of nl80211 = Current users of nl80211: * [[en/users/Documentation/iw|iw]] * [[en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA|crda]] * [[en/users/Documentation/hostapd|hostapd]] * [[en/users/Documentation/wpa_supplicant|wpa_supplicant (with -Dnl80211)]] = libnl tiny = Openwrt folks created a tiny version of libnl based on a git snapshot, which only contains genl, not rtnetlink or any of the netfilter stuff, and compiles down to less than 30k in binary size. You can find it here: https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/libnl-tiny = Kerneldoc for nl80211 = * [[http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git;a=blob;f=include/linux/nl80211.h;hb=HEAD|include/linux/nl80211.h]] ([[/kerneldoc|kerneldoc]]) * [[/kerneldoc/warnings|nl80211 kerneldoc warnings]]