From: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
To: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Feyd <feyd@seznam.cz>
Subject: Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Broadcom 43xx first results
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:41:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051205144141.GD8940@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512051528.33146.mbuesch@freenet.de>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:28:32PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Well, I do not care for drivers ignoring SoftMAC and duplicating
> the work. The question is: Why don't these drivers use SoftMAC?
> (Yeah, because it is incomplete, is the answer. :D I am talking
> about future.)
For me, the answer would have been because I had no idea about that
being worked on somewhere else. Now the answer would be more likely
"because it is not in netdev-2.6 tree with rest of ieee80211
development".
> What is so hard about a driver including ieee80211.h _and_
> ieee80211softmac.h, if it requires Software MAC? And what
> exactly is duplicated work here? SoftMAC does _not_ duplicate;
> it extends.
That is not hard as long as this work is easily available.
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-04 18:50 Broadcom 43xx first results mbuesch
2005-12-04 19:52 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] " Feyd
2005-12-04 19:58 ` Michael Buesch
2005-12-05 5:50 ` Jouni Malinen
2005-12-05 6:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-12-05 11:08 ` Michael Buesch
2005-12-05 14:19 ` Jouni Malinen
2005-12-05 14:28 ` Michael Buesch
2005-12-05 14:41 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2005-12-05 18:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 19:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-05 18:00 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 18:14 ` Michael Renzmann
2005-12-05 18:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-12-05 18:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 18:49 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 19:11 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-30 10:34 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2005-12-06 7:17 ` Michael Renzmann
2005-12-05 18:38 ` Joseph Jezak
2005-12-05 18:55 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 19:18 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 19:53 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 20:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 15:10 ` Harald Welte
2005-12-06 19:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 20:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-12-07 7:16 ` Harald Welte
2005-12-06 23:19 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-06 23:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-07 13:34 ` Michael Buesch
2005-12-08 11:32 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-08 12:07 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-08 12:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-08 13:03 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 19:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-05 19:31 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 19:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-05 20:11 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-06 15:09 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-06 16:43 ` Ben Greear
2005-12-06 23:25 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-06 19:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 15:04 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-08 0:00 ` Michael Wu
2005-12-08 1:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 20:23 ` Michael Buesch
2005-12-05 20:42 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-06 9:26 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-06 10:23 ` Luc Saillard
2005-12-05 19:40 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-05 20:14 ` Michael Buesch
2005-12-05 20:35 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-05 20:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-05 20:40 ` Michael Buesch
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