Re: wireless direction statement

2006-04-02 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 05:17:07PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > I may have missed an announcement on this, but has the wireless-dev > tree containing the recent dscape stack + drivers already been published? > It seems the dscape stack including the drivers for it have been removed > from the wir

Re: wireless direction statement

2006-04-02 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, > Does this mean that we have abandoned the dscape code? No. I think we > need the capabilities provided by the dscape code as well. I just don't > think we can make progress as quickly with the dscape code as we can > this way. > > So what happens to dscape? I will publish a wireless-dev

Re: wireless direction statement

2006-03-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
John W. Linville wrote: I would like to start merging the softmac code towards upstream ASAP. The ieee80211+softmac stack seems to be good enough to achieve basic functionality for a number of drivers. If we had softmac upstream today, there are at least three more drivers that would be availabl

wireless direction statement

2006-03-22 Thread John W. Linville
I haven't posted much in a while, except a few surly maintainer-ish remarks about changelogs and the like. So, I thought it would be good to say something about where I think things are going with wireless. WHERE ARE WE? Those of you who have been keeping-up know that I have established a wirele