From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kimdon Subject: Re: [Madwifi-devel] ar5k and Atheros AR5005G Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:30:38 -0800 Message-ID: <20061129153038.GC5412@devicescape.com> References: <1164746352.31456.22.camel@systems03.lan.brontes3d.com> <200611291505.47405.mb@bu3sch.de> <40f31dec0611290634h3c411c1am61c1b6bb60bc4866@mail.gmail.com> <200611291612.33448.mb@bu3sch.de> <1164813669.2752.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Buesch , Nick Kossifidis , Daniel Drake , netdev@vger.kernel.org, madwifi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from mail.devicescape.com ([207.138.119.2]:40674 "EHLO mail.devicescape.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967415AbWK2Paq (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:30:46 -0500 To: Dan Williams Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1164813669.2752.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:21:09AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:12 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 15:34, Nick Kossifidis wrote: > > > Good luck then ;-) > > > > > > If anyone wants to help on making ar5k work with newer madwifi > > > versions and fix bugs etc (that 'll also help bsd ppl) plzz mail me. > > > We can make it better. > > > > > > Nick > > > P.S. Why not work on dawifi ? > > > > Because it won't be merged mainline either. > > I thought dadwifi was supposed to replace net80211 with d80211 (but not > replace the binary HAL). yes > Aren't the two things complementary, yes > or did > you just decide that starting from scratch would produce a less crufty, > better understood, better-d80211 integrated driver? well, dadwifi will be (is) well integrated with d80211. As far as cruft goes, I'd rather call it historical artifacts :-) We are doing our best to minimize cruft while standing on the shoulders of madwifi. -David > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html