Baa Baa (a Kiwi greeting :) ), I have to second Jiri on this one. The card is used as a 'WAN' technology not a 'LAN' technology platform and hence does not really fit into the 'wireless 802.11<anything>' space. I think that it should be merged in where it currently sits.
~benm -----Original Message----- From: Jiri Kosina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2008 1:15 p.m. To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Marcel Holtmann; David Sterba; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Ben Martel; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PATCH][v4] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And especially with wireless, I think the impact for any future changes > are about the wireless infrastructure, not PCMCIA. There's little reason > to believe that we'll ever make any big PCMCIA overhauls exctly because > PCMCIA is so dead. So I'd happily merge it, but I would be even happier > if I got ack's from the wireless people or if it was simply merged that > way too. Unfortunately the device has quite confusing name (and the driver of course follows). It has 'wireless' in its name, but it has literally nothing to do with "wireless" networking, as long as 802.11<anything> is involved. It is in fact a PCMCIA card, that acts as a GPRS/EDGE/UMTS modem. So its This has been already discussed, please see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0711.3/2198.html Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.4/1147 - Release Date: 23/11/2007 9:19 a.m. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
