From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: d80211 merge plans
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:40:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D9754B.3060909@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608090703.45651.mb@bu3sch.de>
Michael Buesch wrote:
> To heavily reduce maintainance burden I would like to see d80211
> going mainline as soon as possible, so that we can feature-freeze
> the softmac port of bcm43xx and reduce maintainance to next to zero
> there. So if people want freaky features, we simply point them
> to the d80211 port, which would coexist in mainline.
>
> d80211 in mainline would clearly marked as experimental, for sure.
> Notes must be added for possibly breaking usermode interfaces.
Does it have active maintainers?
The DeviceScape people seem to have disappeared for months, except for a
rare appearance recently by Jouni.
Did anyone ever come up with a list of why d80211 is superior?
What are the remaining d80211 issues?
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 5:03 d80211 merge plans Michael Buesch
2006-08-09 5:40 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-08-09 14:37 ` Dan Williams
2006-08-09 20:47 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-08-09 5:48 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 8:19 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2006-08-09 20:09 ` Mohamed Abbas
2006-08-10 6:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-09 9:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
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