From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: 3945 driver using d80211 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:50:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20060809145042.GA2570@tuxdriver.com> References: <44D901C9.6090304@linux.intel.com> <200608081440.48623.flamingice@sourmilk.net> <44D99558.1000507@sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Wu , Mohamed Abbas , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:56071 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750907AbWHIOvz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:51:55 -0400 To: Johannes Berg Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D99558.1000507@sipsolutions.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:57:12AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Michael Wu wrote: > >I think it would be best if you made the firmware not be aware of a > >connection, and let the d80211 code take care of all the > >scanning/authenticating/associating. Of course, I know nothing about 3945, > >so I don't know if that's possible. > > > Please not, for now. We need someone pushing for fullmac features in > d80211, we need those anyway for embedded systems that can't afford > running all of it on the main CPU. While obviously Intel would benefit > from doing this since a lot more d80211 features would come available, > the greater good would be having a main-stream card that someone cares > about and helps making d80211 full-mac capable. I second this opinion. It would be good to make d80211 more capable of dealing with these cards. John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com