From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422991AbWAMVhs (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:37:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422989AbWAMVhs (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:37:48 -0500 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([24.172.12.4]:12560 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422988AbWAMVhr (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:37:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:26:08 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Benc , Stefan Rompf , Mike Kershaw , Krzysztof Halasa , Robert Hancock , Alistair John Strachan , Dominik Brodowski , Denis Vlasenko , Danny van Dyk , Stephen Hemminger , feyd , Chase Venters , Andreas Mohr , Bas Vermeulen , Jean Tourrilhes , Daniel Drake , Ulrich Kunitz , Phil Dibowitz , Simon Kelley , Michael Buesch , Marcel Holtmann , Patrick McHardy , Ingo Oeser , Harald Welte , Ben Greear , Thomas Graf Subject: wireless: recap of current issues (intro) Message-ID: <20060113212605.GD16166@tuxdriver.com> Mail-Followup-To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Benc , Stefan Rompf , Mike Kershaw , Krzysztof Halasa , Robert Hancock , Alistair John Strachan , Dominik Brodowski , Denis Vlasenko , Danny van Dyk , Stephen Hemminger , feyd , Chase Venters , Andreas Mohr , Bas Vermeulen , Jean Tourrilhes , Daniel Drake , Ulrich Kunitz , Phil Dibowitz , Simon Kelley , Michael Buesch , Marcel Holtmann , Patrick McHardy , Ingo Oeser , Harald Welte , Ben Greear , Thomas Graf Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060113195723.GB16166@tuxdriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Original-Status: RO X-Original-Status: RO Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org My original post got eaten by the lists -- probably too big... I'm reposting in sections. After this intro follow sections on Configuration, Compatibility, Stack, Other Issues, and Actions. Enjoy! :-) --- WiFi-ers... Here I am, still feeling "up to the challenge"... I have stopped hyper-ventilating and the nervous vomiting is all over... :-) Having accepted the wireless role, I wanted to review the discussions prompted by Jeff's "State of the Union" message from a little over a week ago. There is lots of good talent involved in these discussions, and I believe a surprisingly high level of agreement (some of it nearly violent!) amongst the players. Below I have recapped what I saw as most of the important issues. I have endorsed some of the ideas, mostly those which seem to have broad agreement. I have also thrown-out a few ideas of my own. Please do comment on all of them, as neither my summaries nor my original ideas are likely to be without fault. :-) I have primarily grouped the issues into configuration, compatibility, and stack concerns. I also included an "other" group for a few other concerns that I though were worth mentioning. Finally, I have included an "actions" section to reveal some of my near-term plans and some of what I am thinking about beyond that. I would love to hear any comments you might have on these items as well. Thanks for taking the time to look this over. Creating this recap has reinforced one thing: this is far too big for just a single person (or even a small group) to tackle alone! Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com