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

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Message-ID: <20070124152638.GC3036@dmt.poa.virtua.com.br>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:26:38 -0200
From:	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	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 Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 03:22:50AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> 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?

The regulatory domain structures, channel information (struct
ieee80211_channel), HW mode (struct ieee80211_hw_mode) compromised of
supported channels and rates, and probably a few others in the same
category. I can't see the possibility of using d80211 as it stands
(designed for softmac cards dealing with 802.11 packets to/from the OS).

However, it does not make any sense to use the structures defined by
d80211 if not effectively using it (we send/receive 802.3 frames to the
firmware, after all), IMO.

As discussed on this thread, there is a lot of code to be cleanup up,
but no structural changes AFAICT. Is there a general agreement on that,
now?

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