From: Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: future of prism2_usb (aka wlan-ng) in staging tree
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:37:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131107163719.GC12612@shaftnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527BC04F.2080000@lwfinger.net>
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:31:11AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> This seems like a good point to clarify what it takes for a wireless
> driver to be added to net/wireless.
>
> Is it necessary that any new softmac driver in net/wireless must use
> mac80211, or is it sufficient that it implement cfg80211?
IMO a softmac driver should use mac80211 before being merged; there's no
sense in having multiple 802.11 stacks especially with the ever-growing
complexity of 802.11.
But in this particular case, prism2_usb/wlan-ng is perhaps the original
fullmac 802.11 device. :)
- Solomon
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Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-07 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 16:05 future of prism2_usb (aka wlan-ng) in staging tree Solomon Peachy
[not found] ` <527BC04F.2080000@lwfinger.net>
2013-11-07 16:37 ` Solomon Peachy [this message]
2013-11-07 17:52 ` John W. Linville
2013-11-07 18:57 ` Solomon Peachy
2013-11-07 19:11 ` John W. Linville
2013-11-07 19:46 ` Solomon Peachy
2013-11-07 22:25 ` Dan Williams
2013-11-07 23:02 ` Solomon Peachy
2013-11-07 23:37 ` Dan Williams
2013-11-08 13:46 ` Solomon Peachy
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