From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755974AbYDHPNY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:13:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753021AbYDHPNN (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:13:13 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([216.93.170.194]:33830 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752156AbYDHPNM (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:13:12 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.259 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:13:07 -0500 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Cc: wimax@linuxwimax.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANN] WiMAX stack and drivers for Intel WiMAX Link 5050 Message-ID: <20080408101307.7b3717ed@speedy> In-Reply-To: <200804011107.38563.inaky@linux.intel.com> References: <200804011107.38563.inaky@linux.intel.com> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I notice that there is a binary supplicant required. After the experience with the ipw3945 driver lack of acceptance, I would hope that Intel would have learned that dependence on binary userspace components would limit acceptance especially with other more hostile projects (OpenBSD).