From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:29:23 -0500 Message-ID: <1169177364.2781.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070116185524.GA5681@dmt> <1169020333.9175.15.camel@johannes.berg> <20070117184204.GA3899@dmt> <20070117230654.GA9387@infradead.org> <1169134905.2788.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070118224008.GA6675@infradead.org> <9e4733910701181454k3d01f018hddbe0568d14f6d8f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Marcelo Tosatti , Johannes Berg , netdev , Jeff Garzik , "John W. Linville" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Arnd Bergmann , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:34173 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964812AbXASD1z (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:27:55 -0500 To: Jon Smirl In-Reply-To: <9e4733910701181454k3d01f018hddbe0568d14f6d8f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:54 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 1/18/07, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:41:45AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Yeah. Let's summarize my unfortunately a bit too nasty comments and > > your more helpfull replies :-) > > > > This driver still needs a lot more work, both to cleanup a lot of crap > > and integrate it better with the wireless stack. And OLPC needs this > > is not going to be an excuse of it's own. > > The main feature of this chip is the on-chip support for 802.11s in > firmware. What is the plan for integrating 802.11s into the existing > wireless stacks? Does it make sense to do a softmac type 802.11s > implementation first to figure out the right places to put the hooks > for the 8388 hardware implementation? I believe Javier Cordona (who will also be at the Linux Wireless Summit this weekend) is going to do a d80211-based implementation alongside the Libertas 8388 firmware and driver bits too. 802.11s networking in Linux is still quite immature, and we need to get people interested in a standard stack talking to each other. Dan