netdev - Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:46:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
To:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Stefanik Gábor <netrolller.3d@...il.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:14 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > Some of the issues with the current Marvell 83xx GPL drivers that have
> > > gotten out are (a) code style, (b) lots of commented out stuff that's
> > > never used, (c) OS abstraction that's unnecessary on Linux, (d) doesn't
> > > use mac80211, and (e) uses private ioctls.  So hopefully you're writing
> > > a new 83xx driver from scratch :)
> > 
> > Yes, this is all from scratch.  The objective for this work is to be 
> > "mainlinable".
> 
> BTW, any chance on putting up a git repo somewhere so others can poke
> around with it?  I'm quite interested in hacking on it.

Eventually, of course.  Let's discuss f2f tomorrow.


Nicolas
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