From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [216.145.245.200] (helo=mx04.dls.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LogwR-0004v6-S2 for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:36:00 +0200 Received: from [209.242.7.134] (helo=[192.168.231.111]) by mx04.dls.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LoguI-00021t-CE for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:33:46 -0500 Message-ID: <49D245F0.4060107@dls.net> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:33:52 -0500 From: "Mike (mwester)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Subject: madwifi-ng & linux 2.6.29 X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:36:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Now that the 2.6.29 kernel has support for some of the Atheros wifi devices, we have a little bit of a problem. The solution would seem to me to be to virtualize atheros support in OE. This would change a number of recipes, including hostap-daemon, wpa-supplicant, and a bunch of package and task recipes. This assumes that hostap-daemon and wpa-supplicant won't need other changes to support the new drivers... So the first question to the group is who uses madwifi anymore? SlugOS includes drivers, but only for selected (and unusual) devices, so fixing this is not a high priority for SlugOS, nor is maintaining compatibility a big concern for SlugOS, I think. Anyone else? Mike (mwester)