From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070919.153256.10296833.davem@davemloft.net> References: <46F19DD0.2050605@gentoo.org> <20070919.151446.116351108.davem@davemloft.net> <46F1A23D.8080606@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org, jeff-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kune-hUSrv6EASfkEnNRfnnE9gw@public.gmane.org To: dsd-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46F1A23D.8080606-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Daniel Drake Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:27:09 +0100 > zd1211rw-mac80211 does not currently add anything to the user experience > over the existing driver, other than automatic rate adaption which is > nice but hasn't proven itself to be of much importance given that the > existing driver has lots of happy users and has never done it. Ok. > Also, this merge has been proposed in a form other than what me and > Ulrich were envisioning (at least from earlier discussions). We want to > convert drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw to mac80211 directly. This would > also avoid a rename and I think would save some hassle. > > Sorry to be a pain, but I really would like some more time to catch up > and make some last changes. I haven't yet even looked at Johannes' > minimal filter flags implementation in the driver or Michael's fix. > > Would you agree to let this wait until 2.6.25? You can hold me to that, > although Ulrich should also comment on if he thinks he'd be ready by then. Fair enough, I'll remove the Z1211 driver during my next rebase.