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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI express card that does AP mode? (abit wlp-01?)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:07:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A69DC4B.8090806@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248450733.21715.26.camel@mj>

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 17:29 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
>>> From the
>>> users' perspective, PCI and PCI Express are different busses and should
>>> be listed separately.
>> I'm not sure. The ID spaces are the same really, and users really don't
>> distinguish that much, for them PCI-E is just the new PCI technology
>> with a different form factor. Kinda like mini-pci vs. pci.
> 
> We can have "form factors": PCI, CardBus, MiniPCI, PCIe and PCI
> ExpressCard.

I endorse the "form factor" idea; however, I think you also need a
mini-PCIe category. BTW, I prefer mini-PCI to MiniPCI.

Larry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-16  8:02 PCI express card that does AP mode? (abit wlp-01?) Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-16 16:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-16 16:39   ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-16 16:48     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-16 17:01       ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-07-16 23:50     ` Jouni Malinen
2009-07-16 23:59       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-17  9:57         ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-16 16:36 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-16 17:01   ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-16 20:20     ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-17  9:58       ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-24  7:39       ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-24 15:23         ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-24 15:29           ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-24 15:43             ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-24 15:47               ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-24 15:52             ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-24 15:59               ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-24 16:04                 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-24 16:09                   ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-24 16:16                     ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-24 16:24                       ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-25  7:46                         ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-07-24 16:07               ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-07-24 15:40           ` Jon Fairbairn

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