From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
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, 05 Dec 2005 13:52:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43948C65.4060405@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512051528.33146.mbuesch@freenet.de>
In general, Jouni's points are good, as are Michael's.
The key question is about the size of the SoftMAC code. If its huge, an
ieee80211 sub-module makes sense. If it's not, then adding the code to
net/ieee80211 makes a lot more sense.
Certainly some chips will use more ieee80211 code than others. This is
no different than ethernet NICs: some make use of TSO and checksum
offload code included in every kernel, while for other NICs the kernel
TSO/csum code is just dead weight.
In general, adding directly to net/ieee80211 is preferred, UNLESS there
are overriding reasons not to do so (such as a huge size increase).
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 18:52 UTC|newest]
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
2005-12-05 18:52 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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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