From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Intersil Prism54 wireless driver Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:43:08 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <404FD23C.4020205@pobox.com> References: <20040304023524.GA19453@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20040310165548.A24693@infradead.org> <20040310172114.GA8867@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <404F5097.4040406@pobox.com> <20040310175200.GA9531@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <404F5744.1040201@pobox.com> <404FA6AC.7040009@linux.co.intel.com> <20040311023141.GB3738@jm.kir.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: James Ketrenos , jt@hpl.hp.com, Christoph Hellwig , "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com, Linux kernel mailing list Return-path: To: Jouni Malinen In-Reply-To: <20040311023141.GB3738@jm.kir.nu> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jouni Malinen wrote: > done, I would hope to get the code merged into the kernel tree either > with full Host AP driver or separately. One option would be to first add > Host AP driver in its current structure (i.e., everything in > drivers/net/wireless) and then create a new directory (net/ieee80211 ?) > for generic IEEE 802.11 functionality and start moving things like the > IEEE 802.11 encryption into the new location. Given the discussion today, I think my preference is to merge all of HostAP into the wireless-2.6 tree I just created, then submit patches to that which create and populate net/802_11. Once the work on that is mostly done, it can get merged back into the main upstream tree. Jeff