From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265495AbUFCESP (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:18:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265497AbUFCESO (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:18:14 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:46038 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265495AbUFCESK (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:18:10 -0400 Message-ID: <40BEA673.8080301@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:17:55 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jkmaline@cc.hut.fi, james.p.ketrenos@intel.com Subject: Re: wireless-2.6 queue opened References: <40BE9ED8.9020505@pobox.com> <20040602211038.287628ac.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040602211038.287628ac.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 23:45:28 -0400 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>Given that there are at least 3 complete wireless stacks (or >>thereabouts) floating about for Linux, I picked one that I felt had the >>best chance of being _evolved_ into a nice, clean, generic wireless >>stack: HostAP. > > > Even though I authored one of the "other" stacks, I'm totally fine > with this choice. Mainly because I simply lack the time or resources > to continue working on the stack I started. Actually... I want to use some of your stuff too. :) HostAP is a successful implementation, but your stuff was a good example of the glue needed to tie 802.11 tightly to the net stack. HostAP still has some "its a separate driver" stuff it needs to get rid of, as it is made more generic. Jeff