On Oct 18, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Matt Brown wrote:
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Guys, why do you waste your time on doing stuff that's useless for
most
of us, and that people can't even legally redistribute.
Well that may be your opinion, but it's certainly not mine. We had
just
discussed starting an in-house project to port the HAL to the d80211
stack when David made his announcement.
The reason? While we'd obviously prefer that the HAL didn't exist, if
it's going to exist we would far rather that it had a common 80211
stack
on top of it, so that we can easily switch to other chipsets and
retain
the same featureset.
Reducing the number of 80211 stacks in use in Linux is a great thing.
Of course, the net80211 stack in FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD is the only
stack (as of 6.x, anyway),
and it supports ... multiple chipsets.
d80211 bought you nothing here.
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