On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Michalis Pappas <mpap...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > Hmm, I wasn't aware of the existence of the user-space library. From a > peek through the sources I notice some copyright disclaimers by GCT. How > do they distribute that library? Who is the maintainer?
[Ben] The user-space library in Chromium OS is released by GCT under BSD. I maintain it for Chrome OS, but it isn't under active development except for bug / security fixes. The world is moving towards LTE. I doubt there is any active development (both HW and SW) on WiMAX. > > My proposal was to replace the custom interface with the kernel's > standard interface for controlling WiMax devices (see include/uapi/ and > include/net/wimax.h). > > In userspace, the interface is supported by wimaxtools' libwimaxll. See: > > https://github.com/ago/wimax-tools/ > > I understand now that this will cause modifications from your part. I > don't know whether the dont-break-userspace principle applies to drivers > in staging. Also, given the problems I stated earlier, I'm not that sure > if the driver in the current state will be accepted to the mainline. > [Ben] AFAIK, there is another Intel i2400m WiMAX driver in kernel. The wimax-tools probably works with that particular driver. I haven't looked at either the i2400m driver or wimax-tools, and need to spend some time to figure out the differences between them and the GCT ones. However, the i2400m driver and wimax-tools don't seem to be under active development either, so I'm not sure how generic or representative they are. I'm happy to help move the GCT driver forward to conform with common interfaces and practices, but at the same time, would like to be pragmatic about the approach we take. > Maybe Greg could help us a bit here? > > Michalis _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
