From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@atheros.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de,
linville@tuxdriver.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: Plan for ath6kl cleanup
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 07:26:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305901563.2681.9.camel@aeonflux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD668F4.6090308@atheros.com>
Hi Kalle,
> We have been thinking about how to get ath6kl out from staging and get
> it to a first class citizen under drivers/net/wireless. There's quite a
> lot of work to do get ath6kl cleaned up and the prospect of doing all
> that through the staging-next tree wasn't that exciting. We would be
> sending hundreds of patches and it would take a long time to cleanup the
> driver. And the disconnection from the wireless core development also
> sounded very daunting (cfg80211 API changes etc.).
my main question is why do you still bother with this driver and not
re-write it as a mac80211 driver from scratch. It seems to be more
softmac than fullmac anyway. Or am I mistaken here?
The source code of the current staging driver is 5 MB in size. That is
by far the largest staging driver. Even brcm80211 is smaller.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 13:13 Plan for ath6kl cleanup Kalle Valo
2011-05-20 13:36 ` Greg KH
2011-05-20 14:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-20 16:51 ` Joe Perches
2011-05-21 3:11 ` Greg KH
2011-05-20 14:33 ` Kalle Valo
2011-05-21 5:24 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-05-20 14:26 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2011-05-20 14:45 ` Kalle Valo
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