From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262488AbUDKVFk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:05:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262508AbUDKVFj (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:05:39 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:39388 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262488AbUDKVFh (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:05:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4079B313.7010907@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:05:23 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Ga?l Le Mignot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Netdev Subject: Re: Any plan for inclusion of linux-wlan-ng ? References: <20040411164011.GA21257@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20040411164011.GA21257@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:37:03PM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I was just wondering is there is any plan of including linux-wlan-ng >>into the 2.6 kernel. Does someone know about that ? If not, does >>someone know why ? > > > The authors have never submitted it? Or wanted to? Never submitted AFAIK, but regardless... There is a central problem of multiple 802.11 stacks that I very much want to avoid. linux-wlan-ng, HostAP, madwifi, and one or two others. I had hoped that HostAP would be submitted, and that could form the basis of a common 802.11 stack, but I haven't heard anything about that in many weeks. Jeff