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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:41:45 -0500 From: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...hat.com>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 23:06 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:42:04PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > And using the Marvell provided firmware is a requirement for OLPC > > machines, where the CPU will be shut down but the chip+firmware will > > continue to forward packets in the mesh network (there are extreme power > > saving constraints on these machines). > > Well, than it probably doesn't go into mainline if you want to continue > doing this stupid layering violation. In the future we'll likely need some layering to support the 8385 SDIO/CF variant, but most likely not in way the USB support is currently excessively layered and abstracted. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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