From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jochen Friedrich Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: SFLC helps developers assess ar5k (enabling free Atheros HAL) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:18:02 +0100 Message-ID: <455C731A.4010503@scram.de> References: <20061115031025.GH3451@tuxdriver.com> <200611151942.14596.mb@bu3sch.de> <20061115192054.GA10009@tuxdriver.com> <200611152026.26095.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "John W. Linville" , madwifi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lwn@lwn.net, mcgrof@gmail.com, david.kimdon@devicescape.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail0.scram.de ([195.226.127.110]:27408 "EHLO mail0.scram.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424064AbWKPOS6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:18:58 -0500 To: Michael Buesch In-Reply-To: <200611152026.26095.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Michael, >> I don't think anyone likes the HAL-based architecture. I don't think >> we will accept a HAL-based driver into the upstream kernel. > > Yeah, wanted to hear that. ;) +1 At least, this way we have a chance to get USB working as well (See http://madwifi.org/ticket/33). OpenBSD seems to have a working driver (if_uath.c) for these USB WLAN sticks. Jochen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRVxzGsP9a9GOLSE6AQIeRgf/ZyvmzdhP1+wjVshy2kK0BX+I+lx7y6RO mMmaVXPnXnHhHE4OLcf9Yrnn6d6i6rS+0CUbw60KgQouuvTFSXEFtSpIYRlXGAyj krMCj8bEfHhDEN8iYjbjdhP9Nx1wQ//JGyoBVpZZ5+sro6ik7wv70igFeDZ2IWg6 38ycxDzINaV13ZscpwoHzO3NhvcSs9k99Syrh/nR6/pp+3g2vXmrsYR+hy7DMrE/ bSI9y50h8rz6ZCire1ppDwADyBW5B1OondoRkjFYd3L8zNUu8s8xUHZ0Znz6B/cc yc7jyfQMsBRTUU7VsX3cWuMfA0UGlPn/0MR0+RHRJYHW5bRlStc5Kw== =Ajsn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----