On Sunday 24 September 2006 08:18, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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 ?
I don't think it's possible to happen for 2.6.19. Ealiest 2.6.20 but likely one or two releases later (me thinks). -- Greetings Michael. - 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
