Re: [PATCH V3] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers

Ivo van Doorn
2007-09-06T18:02:41Z

On Thursday 06 September 2007, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you add 'uwb' [for ultrawideband radios]? That way I could start to use it. A
> > > Doc file would help enourmously also :)
> >
> > I'll create a doc file this weekend which will explain the sysfs files
> > and some instructions for drivers that want to implement it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> > I'm not familiar with ultrawideband radios, don't they fall under the same
> > catagory as wireless lan?
>
> Nope, totally different beast; see linuxuwb.org. UWB is kind of like bluetooth
> on esteroids, for PAN applications. Wireless USB (for eaxmple) uses a UWB radio.

Ah ok.
Well if there will be users, I'll create a patch to add the UWB to the list.
Patch will, just like the doc file, follow this weekend.

Ivo