On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 21:05 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > If you are the maintainer of an out-of-tree driver or other component > (e.g. softmac), please let me hear from you (publicly or privately). > I want to be sure to identify all the major stakeholders. I would > also like to hear your plans for getting your code into the tree... :-)
I'm the author of a driver for the No Wires Needed card family. It's a bit of an odd-man-out in the wireless devices world, as all the wireless management is being done in firmware. Packets are read/sent through a 16550 type interface as ethernet packets, and management packets to control the card are sent in a similar way (but with a different packet type). I inject management packets into the network queue with dev_queue_xmit(), meaning the network queue takes care of the correct locking. I'd be interested in getting it integrated into mainline, although I'll have to devote some time to get the pcmcia handling up to scratch, as well as update to the latest wireless extensions (or any of the other management utensils). Let me know if you are interested in a patch, and I'll see what I can do in the near future. -- Bas Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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
