From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:13:34 -0500 Message-ID: <20070124201334.GB5806@tuxdriver.com> References: <20070117141103.0e468bf4@griffin.suse.cz> <1169046072.2750.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1169047134.9175.49.camel@johannes.berg> <1169055788.2550.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1169056847.2550.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070117230945.GB9387@infradead.org> <45AEAEEB.6050603@pobox.com> <20070118082250.GE11056@tuxdriver.com> <20070124152638.GC3036@dmt.poa.virtua.com.br> <1169664755.14073.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Johannes Berg , Jiri Benc , netdev , "John W. Linville" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Arnd Bergmann , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Dan Williams Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3101 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932617AbXAXUkr (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:40:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1169664755.14073.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:52:35PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > I pushed for a general "lib80211" sort of thing at the Summit, which I > think was agreed in principle with others like Intel. We need something > to hold the bits that are common to d80211 and non-softmac drivers. > These include scan result handling, some bits of the regulatory stuff > (at least structures and definitions for allowed channels and txpower in > each domain), and 802.3 <-> 802.11 framing conversion code. We should > be able to fold more stuff in there as we go along. But there certainly > will be code that both softmac/d80211 and non-softmac drivers (airo, > ipw2x00, libertas, etc) can share. ACK -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com