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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:41:45 -0500
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On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 23:06 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:42:04PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > And using the Marvell provided firmware is a requirement for OLPC
> > machines, where the CPU will be shut down but the chip+firmware will
> > continue to forward packets in the mesh network (there are extreme power
> > saving constraints on these machines).
> 
> Well, than it probably doesn't go into mainline if you want to continue
> doing this stupid layering violation.

In the future we'll likely need some layering to support the 8385
SDIO/CF variant, but most likely not in way the USB support is currently
excessively layered and abstracted.

Dan