On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 23:45 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Oh and I don't care about "it works in dscape stack" sort of crap I > > regulary get. I want something that > > works with upstream kernels. That isn't that much to ask... or is it ? > > wpa_supplicant triggers races in softmac relatively easily, which are > hard to fix properly. At least for me, motivation to work on this stuff > is low given the potentially impending merge of devicescape, and every > time I do spend some time investigating I just get even more frustrated > at how difficult WE is to implement *properly* for "non-hardmac" > drivers. We really have a need for a configuration system designed > around 802.11. > > I agree, the stuff in mainline should be fixed, but at least personally > I am finding it harder and harder to justify working on softmac.
So what are the chances of getting this dscape stack merged, let's say... for 2.6.19 ? Or we'll get yet another full release with barely working wireless ? Cheers, Ben. - 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
