From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [git patches] new wireless stuffs Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:04:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20050731130407.GA14550@elf.ucw.cz> References: <42EC0C3E.7030705@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Netdev List Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42EC0C3E.7030705@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 -- if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address