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.
next prev parent 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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