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For the uninitiated: how long before we can expect the results of this research to be used in mainstream products?

• legulere 9y ago
  From the abstract: "The implementation has been accepted into the mainline kernel distribution, making it available for deployment on billions of devices running Linux today."
  • kayali 9y ago
    Perhaps you misunderstood my question. How long would it take for routers that run that version of the kernel to be available?
    • JPLeRouzic 9y ago
      As mangix said, it is not a question of "having this version in router's kernel" because it depends strictly on the kind of chip the hardware uses. Most Wi-Fi chips use their own program which is called "a binary blob", they do not use the Wi-Fi stack of Linux except as a wrapper around their own code, which is not accessible in source, only in binary. This is why for example in Ubuntu (but also in most other Linux distributions) there are "third party codes" that are "not free".