Re: Broadcom 43xx first results

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:08:28PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > Jiri Benc wrote:
 > >On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:38:37 -0500, Joseph Jezak wrote:
 > >
 > >>We're not writing an entire stack.  We're writing a layer that sits in 
 > >>between the current ieee80211 stack that's already present in the kernel 
 > >>and drivers that do not have a hardware MAC.  Since ieee80211 is already 
 > >>in use in the kernel today, this seemed like a natural and useful 
 > >>extension to the existing code.  I agree that it's somewhat wasteful to 
 > >>keep rewriting 802.11 stacks and we considered other options, but it 
 > >>seemed like a more logical choice to work with what was available and 
 > >>recommended than to use an external stack.
 > >
 > >
 > >Unfortunately, the only long-term solution is to rewrite completely the
 > >current in-kernel ieee80211 code (I would not call it a "stack") or
 > >replace it with something another. The current code was written for
 > >Intel devices and it doesn't support anything else - so every developer
 > 
 > Patently false.
 > 
 > ieee80211 is used by Intel.  Some bits used by HostAP, which also 
 > duplicates a lot of ieee80211 code.  And bcm43xx.  And another couple 
 > drivers found in -mm or out-of-tree.

Orinoco also uses it now no ?

		Dave