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Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:33:36 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] add mac80211 wireless infrastructure
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:17:49PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> This series adds the mac80211 component. This is the new wireless
> infrastructure for "softmac"-style wireless hardware. It originated
> as code contributed by Devicescape, and has been under development by
> the community for well over a year. Thanks are due especially to Jiri
> Benc and Michael Wu as well as Johannes Berg and a number of other
> contributors who have worked to hammer this into its current form.
>
> This component was in -mm for most of the 2.6.21 cycle, with few
> reported bugs. The code is also currently available in Fedora rawhide
> where it has performed well.
>
> The wireless developers would like this to be considered for merge
> in time for 2.6.22. Patches for at least one mac80211-based driver
> will follow shortly.
Please send out patches for review first. Last time I looked through
the stuff in -mm there were a lot of things that were in pretty bad
shape still.
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