From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Cliff Brake <cliff.brake@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: plan for libertas and mac80211 and cfg80211
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:53:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225903982.25627.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225900330.3619.125.camel@johannes.berg>
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 16:52 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:28 -0500, Cliff Brake wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using the marvell 8686 in several projects. Is there any plan to
> > move the libertas driver to mac80211 in the future?
>
> There's the libertas_tf driver that uses a different firmware, the
> libertas driver uses a smarter firmware that's "too smart" to be used
> with mac80211.
libertas_tf thin firmware is only compatible with usb8388 cards at this
time.
> > If not, will
> > cfg80211 mechanisms be supported with this driver?
>
> Depends which mechanisms and who's interested in doing any work on it.
Yes, we're interested in porting to cfg80211 and I definitely see that
in the future.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-05 15:28 plan for libertas and mac80211 and cfg80211 Cliff Brake
2008-11-05 15:52 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-05 16:53 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2008-11-05 16:55 ` Dan Williams
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