netdev - Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2)

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Message-ID: <20070118082250.GE11056@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:22:50 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"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, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:19:07PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:00:47PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> >>allows the 8388 to continue routing other laptops' packets over the mesh
> >>*while the host CPU is asleep*.
> >
> >We're not going to put a lot of junk into the kernel just because the OLPC
> >folks decide to do odd powermanagment schemes.
> 
> We're not going to ignore useful power management schemes just because 
> they don't fit neatly into a pre-existing category.
> 
> I think the request to determine how all this maps into MLME is fair, 
> though.

Definitely.  Also, I wonder if there was any attempt to evaluate how
the ieee80211 (or d80211) code might be extended in order to elimnate
the need for some of the libertas wlan_* files?

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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