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

Jiri Kosina
2008-02-06T00:15:26Z

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,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs