Re: [git patches] new wireless stuffs
Christoph Hellwig wrote: Any chance we can give the hostap driver a better name? hostap describes the AP mode it can operate on, but it should really be named after the hardware it supports in some way. If the driver gets rewritten, sure. Otherwise, users are already familiar with the name. Jeff - 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
Re: [git patches] new wireless stuffs
Hi! > If this is post-2.6.13 material, that's fine. > > I've been getting tired of the slow movement of wireless. A little bit > of that is my fault, certainly. I've also been wanting to get these net > drivers out to Linux users. > > This adds HostAP, ipw2100, ipw2200, and the generic ieee80211 code. The > only -changes- in this set are cosmetic. > > Further work is pending from SuSE and Intel [*poke* *poke* to them], but > these should be working, and have been in -mm for quite a while. > > One big thing I'm still hoping for is that someone will merge HostAP > (where ieee80211 code came from) with the ieee80211 generic code. The > HostAP maintainer has been unwilling to do it, even though he has been > good about keeping HostAP updated, so hopefully a volunteer will step up. > > Please pull from branch 'ieee80211-wifi' of > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git > > to obtain the changes described by the attached diffstat/changelog. The > file additions were too large to attach, so I only attached the changes > to existing files. Existing drivers merely had some struct renames (for > new ieee80211 header), and some 'add "static" attribute' changes. Wow, thanks! Pavel -- if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address - 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
Re: [git patches] new wireless stuffs
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 07:24:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > If this is post-2.6.13 material, that's fine. > > I've been getting tired of the slow movement of wireless. A little bit > of that is my fault, certainly. I've also been wanting to get these net > drivers out to Linux users. > > This adds HostAP, ipw2100, ipw2200, and the generic ieee80211 code. The > only -changes- in this set are cosmetic. Any chance we can give the hostap driver a better name? hostap describes the AP mode it can operate on, but it should really be named after the hardware it supports in some way. - 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
Re: [git patches] new wireless stuffs
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 07:24:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > One big thing I'm still hoping for is that someone will merge HostAP > (where ieee80211 code came from) with the ieee80211 generic code. The > HostAP maintainer has been unwilling to do it, even though he has been > good about keeping HostAP updated, so hopefully a volunteer will step up. I would say this has been more due to lack of time than unwillingness on my part. Finally, I got git set up yesterday and got back to working with the wireless-2.6/netdev-2.6 code and I'm planning on working with the Host AP and ieee80211 code merge. I would expect the client side functionality to be relatively easy merge, but the AP side functionality may require considerable amount of work due to the current ieee80211 code being more focused on the client side. -- Jouni MalinenPGP id EFC895FA - 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
