On Saturday 05 August 2006 19:30, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 05 August 2006 13:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:21:49AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > I don't anticipate the d80211 naming conventions to ever make it out > > > of wireless-dev. By the time we are ready to push that stuff upstream, > > > we will have cleaned-up our messes. > > > > Yes, absolutely. > > > > > This does raise the question: Should we start taking patches to > > > wireless-dev that migrate the current (i.e. ieee80211/softmac) stack > > > out of the kernel? This would include (re-)moving the current stack > > > code, pointing non-migrated drivers (ipw2[12]00, zd1211rw) at the old > > > code, moving drivers out of drivers/net/wireless/d80211 up a level, > > > removing the softmac-based version of the bcm43xx driver, etc. > > Yes, I personally would like to see that happen now.
I forgot to say why ;) It's getting a major pain to support two up-to-date bcm43xx drivers. It's getting nontrivial to port drivers over from bcm43xx-softmac to bcm43xx-d80211; even with tools like quilt and wiggle. What I'd like to see is: After 2.6.18 got out, we freeze bcm43xx-softmac and only allow small bugfixes to it. All development work would go into the d80211 branch. That saves me a _lot_ of time and pain. -- 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
