From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] new wireless stuffs
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:04:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050731130407.GA14550@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42EC0C3E.7030705@pobox.com>
Hi!
> If this is post-2.6.13 material, that's fine.
>
> I've been getting tired of the slow movement of wireless. A little bit
> of that is my fault, certainly. I've also been wanting to get these net
> drivers out to Linux users.
>
> This adds HostAP, ipw2100, ipw2200, and the generic ieee80211 code. The
> only -changes- in this set are cosmetic.
>
> Further work is pending from SuSE and Intel [*poke* *poke* to them], but
> these should be working, and have been in -mm for quite a while.
>
> One big thing I'm still hoping for is that someone will merge HostAP
> (where ieee80211 code came from) with the ieee80211 generic code. The
> HostAP maintainer has been unwilling to do it, even though he has been
> good about keeping HostAP updated, so hopefully a volunteer will step up.
>
> Please pull from branch 'ieee80211-wifi' of
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git
>
> to obtain the changes described by the attached diffstat/changelog. The
> file additions were too large to attach, so I only attached the changes
> to existing files. Existing drivers merely had some struct renames (for
> new ieee80211 header), and some 'add "static" attribute' changes.
Wow, thanks!
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-31 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-30 23:24 [git patches] new wireless stuffs Jeff Garzik
2005-07-31 1:04 ` Jouni Malinen
2005-07-31 11:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-07-31 16:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-07-31 13:04 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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