From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: hedwin <hedwin.koning@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Support for Android for mac80211 / cfg80211 802.11 drivers
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:09:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110610200900.GE2665@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=O4CSp7EyQSj0_09AE4O+5WGfvLw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:07:09PM +0200, hedwin wrote:
> If it needs to be part of AOSP then it will be a problem.
> If not it entirely depends on those maintaining the specific android "distro".
> Some follow the google policy others don't.
nl80211 doesn't require libnl -- Google will simply have to implement
their own replacement. Their apparentl (L)GPL allergy has already
led them to do so for the other system components, so why should they
stop now?
In any case, it is Google's problem to solve.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-10 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-01 23:29 Support for Android for mac80211 / cfg80211 802.11 drivers Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-02-02 0:45 ` Bob Copeland
2011-02-02 0:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-02-02 2:41 ` Bob Copeland
2011-02-02 8:02 ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-02 11:30 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-02-02 11:33 ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-02 13:38 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-02-02 16:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-06-10 19:28 ` hedwin
2011-06-10 19:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-06-10 20:07 ` hedwin
2011-06-10 20:09 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2011-06-10 20:25 ` hedwin
2011-06-12 17:18 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-06-10 20:15 ` hedwin
2011-02-02 11:57 ` Bob Copeland
2011-02-02 12:03 ` Johannes Berg
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