Re: Nokia N900 running mac80211

[Paresh Sawant <paresh.sawant@gmail.com>]

Is this information officially published that N900 uses mac80211 with
kernel 2.6.28 ?


Thanks
- Paresh

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:22 PM, John W. Linville<linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 02:55:31PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> wanted to tell you that just released Nokia N900 is using mac80211 and
>> wl1251 driver. The kernel is 2.6.28 with few wireless related patches
>> backported from newer releases and some hacks related to roaming.
>>
>> http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1337594
>
> Hey, that is cool!  Let's hope other manufacturers learn to embrace
> the open code in the kernel and abandon closed-source options that
> merely reimplement functionality that we already provide.
>
> Let's also hope that this continues to motivate Nokia to support you
> are your coworkers in making strong contributions to the kernel in
> wireless and other areas.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
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