From: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>, "proski@gnu.org" <proski@gnu.org>,
"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: at76_usb driver status
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:21:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223317277.11272.222.camel@violet.holtmann.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081006102302.GA6288@tesla>
Hi Luis,
> > Well, you have to ask yourself then, what's the point of putting that
> > driver with it's own 802.11 stack into staging when it's never going to
> > go into the mainline kernel until it uses mac80211?
>
> And provided that there is an alternative driver that uses mac80211. Die
> out of tree drivers, die.
I can only second that. If it is a SoftMAC and not using mac80211 then
it is not even worth it. We want the mac80211 ported driver to go
upstream. Everything else is just waste of time.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 21:07 at76_usb driver status Greg KH
2008-10-02 16:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-05 6:32 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 5:56 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 6:22 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:14 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:16 ` Greg KH
2008-10-05 6:29 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 15:14 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 5:28 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-06 5:39 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-06 5:42 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-06 6:10 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-06 6:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-05 6:41 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 15:14 ` Greg KH
2008-10-05 16:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 22:57 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 15:23 ` Dan Williams
2008-10-06 10:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-06 18:21 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2008-10-06 18:35 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 20:12 ` Dan Williams
2008-10-06 20:31 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-06 20:42 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-06 21:39 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-06 22:54 ` Greg KH
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