netdev-2.6, wireless queues updated

netdev-2.6, wireless queues updated

[Jeff Garzik]

The net driver change queue has been updated, most notably with some new 
wireless drivers and wireless stack updates.

Intel contributed drivers for their Centrino hardware, "ipw2100" and 
"ipw2200".  SuSE has begun contributing work that advances the ieee80211 
stack work, taking it much closer to the goal of having ieee802.11 
support fully integrated into the network stack as "real" protocol layer.


Git repository containing a great many branches:
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git

The branch of note for wireless developers is currently 'we18-ieee80211'.

Git instructions, for those needing an introduction:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11

And finally a patch containing _only_ the changes on the we18-ieee80211 
branch,
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.12-rc5-git2-ieee80211-1.patch.bz2

Notably, this patch does not include HostAP, which is stored in a child 
branch 'we18-ieee80211-wifi'.

Re: netdev-2.6, wireless queues updated

[Domenico Andreoli]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:45:01PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> And finally a patch containing _only_ the changes on the we18-ieee80211 
> branch,
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.12-rc5-git2-ieee80211-1.patch.bz2

jeff, i am using a separate ipw2200 1.0.4 module with the proper hotplug firmware.

after i read this message i wanted to try your patch but during the
build i realized that you may have merged a different version (indeed
it looks like 1.0.0).

i don't really know what would be happened after reboot, using driver
1.0.0 and firmware for 1.0.4. i'd put a big notice in the help of ipw2*
modules about matching driver and firmware versions. mixing them is
probably a bad gift to your hardware.

yes, people should read those readmes.

cheers
domenico

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