On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:21, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > Now that it seems to be ok to use these openbsd sources, should I port > > them to my driver framework? > > I looked over the ar5k code and, well, I don't like it. ;) > > I don't really like having a HAL. I'd rather prefer a "real" driver > > without that HAL obfuscation. > > I don't think anyone likes the HAL-based architecture. I don't think > we will accept a HAL-based driver into the upstream kernel.
Yeah, wanted to hear that. ;) > The point is that the ar5k is now safe to be used as a reference and > source of information (and code, as appropriate) without copyright FUD. > Distilling that information into a proper Linux driver is work that > remains to be done. Yeah, ok. I'll look what I can do. First I'll have to read the code. and understand it. DMA stuff seems to be really obfuscated though dozens of callbacks, heh. :) -- 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
