linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711301518320.12807@jikos.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:20:55 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, jslaby@...e.cz,
	stephen@...metric.co.nz, Ben Martel <benm@...metric.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > Driver lives in drivers/char/pcmcia directory, it's a serial driver.  
> > I'm not sure if this is the right place, since it's a networking 
> > driver too and therefore should be in drivers/net/pcmcia.
> If the -main- purpose of the hardware is wireless, it should go in via 
> John Linville, wireless maintainer...

Well, it is

- 4G UMTS PPP networking hardware
- PCMCIA
- which presents itself as a serial character device (i.e. looks like 
  usual modem to userspace, accepts AT commands, etc)

So my opinion is that it's very far away from what actually is in 
drivers/net/wireless. It's not 802.x network card in any sense.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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