From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Updated WE-18 (WPA) proposal Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:20:01 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4133A811.1010009@pobox.com> References: <20040830045441.GA7415@jm.kir.nu> <20040830165026.GD29492@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <413363CB.7060807@pobox.com> <20040830174215.GA32132@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <41336A28.9010608@pobox.com> <20040830220105.GY22126@ruslug.rutgers.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, Jouni Malinen , netdev@oss.sgi.com, hostap@shmoo.com, Pedro Ramalhais Return-path: To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" In-Reply-To: <20040830220105.GY22126@ruslug.rutgers.edu> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:55:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > <-- snip --> > >>> Also, I'm not clear how the stuff in wireless-2.6 is supposed >>>to trickle into the other trees (netdev-2.6, -mm and Linus's), and how >>>to better link it with the CVS of the various drivers involved. >> >>Less of a trickle than a flood: wireless-2.6 should be the target for >>development of shared wireless stack code. As several drivers are >>currently using bits of HostAP, for example, wireless-2.6 should be a >>focal point for patches that modify these drivers to instead share the >>same code. >> >>Once this generic work is done, it would get pushed all at once to >>netdev-2.6, where it would receive testing in -mm. Then, later, pushed >>to mainline. >> >> Jeff > > > Beides wpa_supplicant from hostap code (which is actually going into > WE18) what other code re-use is on the roadmap as of yet for wireless-2.6? Intel Centrino driver is re-using chunks of HostAP, and I'm looking at doing so for the RealTek 8180 driver I am about to publish. > Also who is coordinating this? The same person who coordinates the kernel at large... no one ;-) Jeff