From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-2.6 0/12] Host AP update
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 03:04:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41907A06.2040702@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041108070156.GA1076@jm.kir.nu>
Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Here's an update to Host AP code in wireless-2.6 tree. This brings in
> number of small fixes from my CVS repository. This messages has the
> changes in BitKeeper format from bksend and following 12 messages have
> the patches one by one as unified diffs.
>
> I have couple of additional patches pending for wireless-2.6 updates
> (wireless extensions 17 and 18; changes to PCI API in Linux
> 2.6.10-rc1). I'll send WE17 and PCI changes once you update
> wireless-2.6. WE18 change requires an update to wireless extensions,
> so it may need to wait somewhat longer or we could start testing WE18
> in wireless-2.6 if that is desired.
Feel free to push experimental (but tested!) code to wireless-2.6.
> I keep getting questions about getting Host AP driver to linux-2.6
> tree. What would be needed to make this happen? I would assume this
Andrew Morton's "-mm" kernels are essentially a staging area for pushing
changes to the upstream kernel. I pulled the latest wireless-2.6 tree
(includes your latest patches #1 - #9) into my netdev-2.6 queue.
netdev-2.6, in turn, is automatically pulled by Andrew, into his -mm
tree. It will get wider review and testing here.
> would be easiest to do this from wireless-2.6 tree once the new
> patches are in. Any other changes that would be required to get the
> driver in suitable state for merging into Linux 2.6 releases?
A key goal I have for HostAP is that portions of HostAP code should be
bundled into a generic "lib80211" kernel module, for use by various
low-level and "softmac" 802.11 device drivers.
The Intel Centrino driver folks are already using HostAP in this
capacity, and I _think_ their changes were fairly minimal and cosmetic.
If the changes are indeed minimal, I think it's better to merge
those changes before sending HostAP stuff upstream.
To emphasize that the upstream-bound HostAP code is a generic library
(well, parts of it), I would prefer that the kernel module name, and API
prefixes, use some name other than 'hostap_'. 'wifi_' or 'ieee80211_'
or whatever, I don't care. Just something "more generic".
I would rather perform mass renaming of functions and files before
merging upstream.
> You can import this changeset into BK by piping this whole message to:
> '| bk receive [path to repository]' or apply the patch as usual.
IMHO the bksend stuff is useless. I prefer "plain ole patches", like
the ones you sent in emails '1/12' through '12/12' in this thread.
WRT the patches you sent, as I mentioned, #1 - #9 were applied. Please
update #10 and #11 per comments, and then resend #10 - #12.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-09 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-08 7:01 [PATCH wireless-2.6 0/12] Host AP update Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:10 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 1/12] Host AP: Disable EAPOL TX/RX debug messages Jouni Malinen
2004-11-09 7:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-08 7:11 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 2/12] Host AP: Fix interface packet counters Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:12 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 3/12] Host AP: Ignore (Re)AssocResp messages silently Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:12 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 4/12] Host AP: Remove ioctl debug messages Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:13 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 5/12] Host AP: Fix hw address changing for wifi# interface Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:13 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 6/12] Host AP: Prevent STAs from associating using AP address Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:14 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 7/12] Host AP: Fix compilation with PRISM2_NO_STATION_MODES defined Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:14 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 8/12] Host AP: Do not bridge packets to unauthorized ports Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:15 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 9/12] Host AP: Fix card enabling after firmware download Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:16 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 10/12] Host AP: Use void * instead of unsigned long with {read,write}{b,w} Jouni Malinen
2004-11-09 7:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-14 5:18 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 10/16] Host AP: Use void __iomem * " Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-08 7:17 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 11/12] Host AP: Fix PRISM2_IO_DEBUG Jouni Malinen
2004-11-09 7:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-14 5:20 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 11/16] " Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08 7:17 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 12/12] Host AP: Fix netif_carrier_off() in non-client modes Jouni Malinen
2004-11-09 8:04 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-11-09 9:09 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 0/12] Host AP update Michael Renzmann
2004-11-09 15:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-09 21:32 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-11-14 5:15 ` Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14 5:21 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 12/16] Host AP: Fix netif_carrier_off() in non-client modes Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14 5:22 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 13/16] Host AP: pci_register_driver() return value changes Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14 5:23 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 14/16] Host AP: Updated to use Linux wireless extensions v17 Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14 5:24 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 15/16] Host AP: Replaced direct dev->priv references with netdev_priv(dev) Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14 5:25 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 16/16] Host AP: Replaced MODULE_PARM with module_param* Jouni Malinen
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