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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dsd@gentoo.org
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kune@deine-taler.de
Subject: Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:32:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919.153256.10296833.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F1A23D.8080606@gentoo.org>

From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:27:09 +0100

> zd1211rw-mac80211 does not currently add anything to the user experience 
> over the existing driver, other than automatic rate adaption which is 
> nice but hasn't proven itself to be of much importance given that the 
> existing driver has lots of happy users and has never done it.

Ok.

> Also, this merge has been proposed in a form other than what me and 
> Ulrich were envisioning (at least from earlier discussions). We want to 
> convert drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw to mac80211 directly. This would 
> also avoid a rename and I think would save some hassle.
> 
> Sorry to be a pain, but I really would like some more time to catch up 
> and make some last changes. I haven't yet even looked at Johannes' 
> minimal filter flags implementation in the driver or Michael's fix.
> 
> Would you agree to let this wait until 2.6.25? You can hold me to that, 
> although Ulrich should also comment on if he thinks he'd be ready by then.

Fair enough, I'll remove the Z1211 driver during my next rebase.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19 18:10 Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6 John W. Linville
2007-09-19 18:59 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 19:23   ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-19 19:56     ` David Miller
2007-09-19 20:12       ` David Miller
2007-09-19 22:08 ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-19 22:14   ` David Miller
2007-09-19 22:27     ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-19 22:32       ` David Miller [this message]
2007-09-20 13:47   ` John W. Linville
2007-09-20 14:28     ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-20 16:37       ` Larry Finger
2007-09-20 16:40         ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-22  9:48     ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-09-22 12:11       ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-22 14:42         ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-09-22 14:47           ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-19 22:12 ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-20 13:28   ` John W. Linville

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