Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status (wireless)

Jeff Garzik
2005-06-22T03:30:23Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>
>>>This summarises my current thinking on various patches which are presently
>>>in -mm. I cover large things and small-but-controversial things. Anything
>>>which isn't covered here (and that's a lot of material) is probably a "will
>>>merge", unless it obviously isn't.
>>
>>I'd like to ask about 802.11 stack and ipw2100 in particular... Is it
>>"small enough that it did not need mentioning"?
>>Working wireless in mainline would be great...
>
>
> That's up to Jeff.

802.11 stack is still too ipw-specific.

Someone needs to get together another driver using 802.11 stack (such as
HostAP, the original location of much of the code).

So, the merge criteria is: something other than ipw uses it.

Otherwise, it'll never be generic...

Jeff, who has several SuSE wireless patches to merge still