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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:54:09 -0500 From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com> To: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org> Cc: "Dan Williams" <dcbw@...hat.com>, "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 1/18/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:41:45AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > 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. > > Yeah. Let's summarize my unfortunately a bit too nasty comments and > your more helpfull replies :-) > > This driver still needs a lot more work, both to cleanup a lot of crap > and integrate it better with the wireless stack. And OLPC needs this > is not going to be an excuse of it's own. The main feature of this chip is the on-chip support for 802.11s in firmware. What is the plan for integrating 802.11s into the existing wireless stacks? Does it make sense to do a softmac type 802.11s implementation first to figure out the right places to put the hooks for the 8388 hardware implementation? -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@...il.com - 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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