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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Guidelines regarding separate directory
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:13:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225469608.27440.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225447269.3535.4.camel@johannes.berg>

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:01 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 23:10 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Quoting Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>:
> 
> > The WPA support in orinoco is limited to Agere firmware.  Maybe Symbol  
> > firmware will be supported at some point.  But adding WPA support for  
> > Intersil firmware would duplicate efforts.
> 
> Yes, I know, but wouldn't adding that based on the hostap stuff be
> fairly simple? I know nobody has time to...
> 
> > The only thing I would like to change in hostap is that it should  
> > default to managed mode, like other drivers do.
> 
> No, that's not true, just see
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11802 for example. The AP
> part also duplicates a lot of mac80211 functionality.

Orinoco is a mostly-fullmac driver, while hostap is quasi-softmac,
right?

Dan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 17:10 Guidelines regarding separate directory Larry Finger
2008-10-30 17:21 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-30 20:24   ` Dave
2008-10-30 20:26     ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-30 20:44     ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-30 20:48       ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-31  3:10         ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-31 10:01           ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-31 16:01             ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-31 16:13             ` Dan Williams [this message]
2008-10-31 16:24               ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-31 17:04         ` Richard Farina
2008-10-31 17:41           ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-31 19:06             ` Richard Farina
2008-11-04  0:28               ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-30 20:50       ` Dave
2008-10-30 17:29 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-30 23:47   ` Larry Finger
2008-10-31 10:06     ` Johannes Berg

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