From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: netdev@nospam.otaku42.de
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
mbuesch@freenet.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Broadcom 43xx first results
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:46:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43948B13.2090509@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133806444.4498.35.camel@gimli>
Michael Renzmann wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:00 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
>
>>Why yet another attempt to write 802.11 stack? Sure, the one currently
>>in the kernel is unusable and everybody knows about it. But why not to
>>improve code opensourced by Devicescape some time ago instead of
>>inventing the wheel again and again?
>
>
> Or, in case there is some unknown objection to the mentioned code: use
> the 802.11 stack that comes along with MadWifi, which provides things
> like virtual interfaces (for multiple SSID support on one physical card)
> and WPA support.
>
> Although I'm a bit biased towards MadWifi, I'd second your suggestion to
> make use of the Devicescape code. The benefit of having a fully-blown
> 802.11 stack in the kernel that drivers can make use of has been
> discussed before, so I won't go into that yet again.
Use the stack that's already in the kernel.
Encouraging otherwise hinders continued wireless progress under Linux.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1Eiyw4-0003Ab-FW@www1.emo.freenet-rz.de>
2005-12-05 18:00 ` Broadcom 43xx first results Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 18:14 ` Michael Renzmann
2005-12-05 18:46 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-12-05 18:49 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 19:11 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-06 7:17 ` Michael Renzmann
[not found] ` <20051205190038.04b7b7c1-IhiK2ZEFs2oCVLCxKZUutA@public.gmane.org>
2005-12-05 18:38 ` Joseph Jezak
2005-12-05 18:55 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 19:18 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 19:53 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 20:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 15:10 ` Harald Welte
2005-12-06 19:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-07 7:16 ` Harald Welte
2005-12-06 23:19 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-06 23:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-07 13:34 ` Michael Buesch
2005-12-08 11:32 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-08 12:07 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-08 12:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-08 13:03 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 19:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-05 19:31 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-05 19:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-05 20:11 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-06 15:09 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-06 16:43 ` Ben Greear
2005-12-06 23:25 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-06 19:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06 15:04 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-08 0:00 ` Michael Wu
2005-12-08 1:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-05 20:23 ` Michael Buesch
2005-12-05 20:42 ` Jiri Benc
2005-12-06 9:26 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-06 10:23 ` Luc Saillard
2005-12-06 22:47 Jean Tourrilhes
2005-12-07 7:11 ` Jouni Malinen
2005-12-07 19:16 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2005-12-07 19:47 ` Jouni Malinen
2005-12-07 19:05 ` Jean Tourrilhes
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