From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: d80211 merge plans Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:40:27 -0400 Message-ID: <44D9754B.3060909@garzik.org> References: <200608090703.45651.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Benc , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:18592 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965077AbWHIFkm (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:40:42 -0400 To: Michael Buesch , "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <200608090703.45651.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Michael Buesch wrote: > To heavily reduce maintainance burden I would like to see d80211 > going mainline as soon as possible, so that we can feature-freeze > the softmac port of bcm43xx and reduce maintainance to next to zero > there. So if people want freaky features, we simply point them > to the d80211 port, which would coexist in mainline. > > d80211 in mainline would clearly marked as experimental, for sure. > Notes must be added for possibly breaking usermode interfaces. Does it have active maintainers? The DeviceScape people seem to have disappeared for months, except for a rare appearance recently by Jouni. Did anyone ever come up with a list of why d80211 is superior? What are the remaining d80211 issues? Jeff