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

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Message-Id: <1216196668.3422.2.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:24:28 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Guy Cohen <guy@...y.net>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008


> > Not sure exactly what you mean with this one.  Are you talking about
> > the lib80211 line item?  Or enhancements to the mac80211 component
> > to support full(er) MAC designs?
> 
> I hope just lib80211.  We shouldn't be extending mac80211 to fullmac or
> quasi-fullmac parts.  But we can certainly share a lot of stuff.
> lib80211 is where I see any additional fullmac effort going.

Just a minor point wrt. lib80211: I see little use in creating yet
another module since hopefully soon enough fullmac chipsets will bind
cfg80211 anyway so all of that stuff might as well be in there.

johannes

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