On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:08:28PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jiri Benc wrote:
> >On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:38:37 -0500, Joseph Jezak wrote:
> >
> >>We're not writing an entire stack. We're writing a layer that sits in
> >>between the current ieee80211 stack that's already present in the kernel
> >>and drivers that do not have a hardware MAC. Since ieee80211 is already
> >>in use in the kernel today, this seemed like a natural and useful
> >>extension to the existing code. I agree that it's somewhat wasteful to
> >>keep rewriting 802.11 stacks and we considered other options, but it
> >>seemed like a more logical choice to work with what was available and
> >>recommended than to use an external stack.
> >
> >
> >Unfortunately, the only long-term solution is to rewrite completely the
> >current in-kernel ieee80211 code (I would not call it a "stack") or
> >replace it with something another. The current code was written for
> >Intel devices and it doesn't support anything else - so every developer
>
> Patently false.
>
> ieee80211 is used by Intel. Some bits used by HostAP, which also
> duplicates a lot of ieee80211 code. And bcm43xx. And another couple
> drivers found in -mm or out-of-tree.
Orinoco also uses it now no ?
Dave
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