On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:54 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 1/18/07, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
I believe Javier Cordona (who will also be at the Linux Wireless Summit this weekend) is going to do a d80211-based implementation alongside the Libertas 8388 firmware and driver bits too. 802.11s networking in Linux is still quite immature, and we need to get people interested in a standard stack talking to each other. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
