linux-kernel - Re: w35und: add softmac interface

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Message-ID: <544ab8580804150110x2f1841b4m7ebd43f1a6441458@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:10:53 +0200
From:	"Károly Kasza" <kaszak@...il.com>
To:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"kernel list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	lcostantino@...il.com, someone@...anet.hu
Subject: Re: w35und: add softmac interface

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>  > > This adds softmac interface to w35und driver... so it becomes monster
>  > > driver with _two_ interfaces.
>  > >
>  > > If you initialize hardmac interface, then softmac starts to
>  > > works... it associates to AP, and can even ping.
>  > >
>  > > (Or at least I hope so... it was somewhat too easy.)
>  >
>
> > OK, I'm late to the party...what is this stuff going into
>  > drivers/net/wireless?
>
>  Actually you are about month early to the party ;-). We are trying to
>  clean up winbond usb wireless driver, so that it can think about
>  inclusion in kernel.
>
>  http://code.google.com/p/winbondport/
>
>  Unfortunately, original driver carries its own 802.11 stack with it;
>  that needs to be stripped down. (And then code needs to be rewritten
>  due to horrible coding style).
>                                                                 Pavel
>

Hi!

Last weekend we have started to rewrite the whole code based on
rtl8187's softmac driver.
The wlan0 device init with it's own mac is ok, but thats all so far. I
think it would be more sane to just drop the
old driver now (it would take more work the correct the old one), and
create a new svn branch for the softmac
only brand new one.

KK
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