RE: [PATCH][v4] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card

Ben Martel
2008-02-06T08:31:42Z

Baa Baa (a Kiwi greeting :) ),

I have to second Jiri on this one. The card is used as a 'WAN'
technology not a 'LAN' technology platform and hence does not really fit
into the 'wireless 802.11<anything>' space. I think that it should be
merged in where it currently sits.

~benm

-----Original Message-----
From: Jiri Kosina [mailto:jkosina@suse.cz]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2008 1:15 p.m.
To: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Marcel Holtmann; David Sterba; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Ben
Martel; stephen@symmetric.co.nz
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v4] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And especially with wireless, I think the impact for any future
changes
> are about the wireless infrastructure, not PCMCIA. There's little
reason
> to believe that we'll ever make any big PCMCIA overhauls exctly
because
> PCMCIA is so dead. So I'd happily merge it, but I would be even
happier
> if I got ack's from the wireless people or if it was simply merged
that
> way too.

Unfortunately the device has quite confusing name (and the driver of
course follows). It has 'wireless' in its name, but it has literally
nothing to do with "wireless" networking, as long as 802.11<anything> is

involved.

It is in fact a PCMCIA card, that acts as a GPRS/EDGE/UMTS modem. So its

This has been already discussed, please see
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0711.3/2198.html

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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