From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Dan Williams" <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>, "Michael Buesch" <mb@bu3sch.de>,
"Stefanik Gábor" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:20:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq0zau21.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216144711.13411.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (ext Dan Williams's message of "Tue\, 15 Jul 2008 13\:58\:31 -0400")
"Dan Williams" <dcbw@redhat.com> writes:
> Some of the issues with the current Marvell 83xx GPL drivers that have
> gotten out are (a) code style, (b) lots of commented out stuff that's
> never used, (c) OS abstraction that's unnecessary on Linux, (d) doesn't
> use mac80211, and (e) uses private ioctls.
I think you just listed exactly the problems with all vendor WLAN
drivers.
I think Intel is the only expection here. Is there anyone else?
> So hopefully you're writing a new 83xx driver from scratch :)
And it always seems that this is the only viable way to solve it :)
(dropping lkml and netdev from CC)
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-09 19:09 Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008 John W. Linville
2008-07-10 0:13 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-10 6:52 ` Ron Rindjunsky
2008-07-10 14:30 ` Kalle Valo
2008-07-11 1:41 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-07-11 4:46 ` Kalle Valo
2008-07-10 6:41 ` Mark Ryden
2008-07-10 7:21 ` Holger Schurig
2008-07-10 7:23 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-10 10:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-10 10:50 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-10 14:31 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-10 15:15 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-10 15:52 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2008-07-10 16:12 ` Stefanik Gábor
2008-07-10 16:15 ` Michael Buesch
2008-07-15 17:16 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-15 17:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-15 17:58 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-15 18:02 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-15 18:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-15 18:38 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-21 14:23 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-21 16:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-15 18:20 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-07-14 15:05 ` Guy Cohen
2008-07-15 17:42 ` John W. Linville
2008-07-15 18:15 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-16 8:24 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-16 16:27 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-14 15:43 ` Guy Cohen
2008-07-15 18:26 ` REVISED AGENDA -- " John W. Linville
2008-07-16 8:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-16 11:29 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-16 18:48 ` 2nd " John W. Linville
2008-07-16 19:58 ` John W. Linville
2008-07-17 10:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-07-17 10:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-07-18 23:23 ` 3rd " John W. Linville
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2008-07-10 7:41 Joerg Pommnitz
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