From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: mark as experimental
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:48:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1177969723.26986.30.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430201742.1f53aa40@griffin.suse.cz>
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:17 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> Make the stack depend on EXPERIMENTAL. Also, change the name from "dscape"
> to "mac80211".
Why is it needed to make mac80211 EXPERIMENTAL? With mac80211 already
in Ubuntu 7.04 and in the forthcoming Fedora 7, it must have received
more testing than some drivers not marked as EXPERIMENTAL.
I don't think enabling mac80211 per se would destabilize the kernel.
Individual drivers could be marked experimental. In particular,
bcm43xx_mac80211 needs such designation, since the softmac version is
much better currently.
If we encourage enabling mac80211, it would make it easier for the users
to compile and test mac80211 based drivers, such as iwlwifi. Even
bcm43xx_mac80211 could be packaged separately to allow compilation
against an existing kernel for the users who want to test it without
upgrading the kernel.
In my opinion, marking mac80211 as EXPERIMENTAL would hinder testing of
mac80211 drivers without having any positive effect on the users who
want stability.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-30 18:17 [PATCH] mac80211: mark as experimental Jiri Benc
2007-04-30 21:48 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2007-05-01 11:51 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-01 17:12 ` Pavel Roskin
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