netdev - Re: net-2.6.24 plans

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:50:52 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: net-2.6.24 plans

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:17 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

> > 2) ATMEL USB driver
> 
> These are both really new.  I think I'll transfer them to my
> wireless-2.6 tree, but still hold them back at least until 2.6.25.

Also, atmel isn't even ported to mac80211 yet, is it?

> > 3) NL80211
> 
> I need to check w/ Johannes to see if the user-facing portions of
> this have stabilized.

I have a patch to basically remove everything from nl80211 that we're
not using today, and make the interface well-defined so each type of
setting has methods to "new, del, get, set", for example create, remove,
get info or change a virtual interface. If you wish, I can post this
patch for inclusion into wireless-dev and then copy the resulting
nl80211 to net-2.6.24, including the mac80211 hooks to make use of it.
Shouldn't take more than a few hours.

johannes

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