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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: David Acker <dacker@roinet.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>,
	Michael Renzmann <mrenzmann@madwifi-project.org>,
	madwifi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	madwifi-users@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Madwifi-devel] Survey: What are you using MadWifi for, and why?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:06:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258495587.2003.41.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B031B48.1090105@roinet.com>

Hi David,

> The problem with switching to ath5k would be the loss of performance 
> related features (compression, fast frames, turbo), and some required 
> features (half/quarter rates are required for some channels on some 
> radios).  Also, I don't know if ath5k will work on products based on 
> Atheros WiSOCs like Ubiquiti's PicoStation and Bullet.  A lesser issue 
> (more of a pain for me than an ath5k issue) is that I have some 
> platforms that use an older kernel and moving up to a newer kernel will 
> have to be done without hardware vendor support.

and that is exactly not a valid point to include MadWifi into the
staging tree. If you are running older kernels, the staging tree doesn't
help you at all.

Regards

Marcel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-17 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2205.95.222.251.107.1258282369.squirrel@webmail.otaku42.de>
2009-11-17  1:01 ` [Madwifi-devel] Survey: What are you using MadWifi for, and why? Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 14:05   ` John W. Linville
2009-11-17 22:08     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-17 16:04   ` Michael Renzmann
2009-11-17 16:38     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 17:51       ` Tom Sharples
2009-11-17 18:05         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 21:51       ` Bob Copeland
2009-11-17 23:23         ` Pat Erley
2009-11-18  7:23       ` Michael Renzmann
2009-11-17 17:40   ` David Acker
2009-11-17 20:57     ` Andrey Yurovsky
2009-11-17 21:37       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 21:44         ` David Acker
2009-11-17 21:45           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 21:53             ` David Acker
2009-11-17 22:04               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 22:28                 ` David Acker
2009-11-17 22:39                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 23:39                     ` Tom Sharples
2009-11-17 23:44                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 22:54                   ` Jouni Malinen
2009-11-17 23:12                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-18 21:58                       ` Pavel Roskin
2009-11-18 22:08                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-18 23:05                           ` Jouni Malinen
2009-11-19  0:21                             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-18 23:12                           ` Pavel Roskin
2009-11-19  0:05                             ` Tom Sharples
2009-11-17 22:06               ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-11-17 22:32                 ` David Acker
2009-11-17 23:22               ` Felix Fietkau
2009-11-18 15:35                 ` David Acker

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