On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:27:08PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, ext John W. Linville wrote: > > > I still have a number of other branches in the wireless-2.6 tree.
> I was wondering what's the reason for not having the madwifi stack there > as well. I haven't seen anyone sending patches for it, but is that the > only reason ? Well, at least part of the answer is "I'm not done yet". I am still collecting code and figuring-out how to get it all into one tree. But, the main answer has to do with the intellectual property (i.e. copyright) issues concerning the HAL. My understanding is that the HAL currently used by the madwifi stack is not available under a license compatible with being included in the Linux kernel. Am I mistaken? I think it is very important to get a driver into the kernel which supports the Atheros hardware. At present, the driver from www.ath-driver.org seems the most promising. Although, some have expressed legal concerns about it as well. Anyone have any clarifying opinions about that driver? Are there any other options for supporting the Atheros hardware within the kernel? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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
