From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] add mac80211 wireless infrastructure Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:33:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20070505093336.GA9307@infradead.org> References: <20070505031749.GA5308@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org, jeff-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "John W. Linville" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070505031749.GA5308-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:17:49PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > This series adds the mac80211 component. This is the new wireless > infrastructure for "softmac"-style wireless hardware. It originated > as code contributed by Devicescape, and has been under development by > the community for well over a year. Thanks are due especially to Jiri > Benc and Michael Wu as well as Johannes Berg and a number of other > contributors who have worked to hammer this into its current form. > > This component was in -mm for most of the 2.6.21 cycle, with few > reported bugs. The code is also currently available in Fedora rawhide > where it has performed well. > > The wireless developers would like this to be considered for merge > in time for 2.6.22. Patches for at least one mac80211-based driver > will follow shortly. Please send out patches for review first. Last time I looked through the stuff in -mm there were a lot of things that were in pretty bad shape still.