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

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:27:59 -0400
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
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

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:24 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > 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.

worksforme, I don't really care where that stuff goes as long as we get
it in one place :)

Dan

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