Re: [PATCH 0/15] Ubuntu patch sync

[Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:46 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:45 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > After dealing with literally dozens of upstream drivers, I think the
> > reasons boil down to a few categories:
> 
> > <...>
> 
> You missed one:
> 
> 5 - They've implemented Yet Another IEEE802.11 stack instead of
> embracing and extending the Intel one we already have, and are hence
> urinating into the atmospheric disturbance.
> 
> That's one of the reasons why I merged bcm43xx and softmac into the
> Fedora kernel and none of the others, FWIW -- Johannes is actually
> working on improving what we have in the kernel, rather than just saying
> "You have to throw it all away because $MYSTACK is better". So I figure
> softmac has a _much_ better chance of going upstream, even if its
> feature list isn't quite as comprehensive yet.

Yeah, I did the same for bcm43xx (it's in the ubuntu tree, and working
on my powerbook right now with wep :)

Didn't notice softmac had a git tree now. And here I am pulling from
mercurial and hand merging :/

> http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/softmac-2.6.git

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   Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
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