From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Thompson Subject: Re: d80211: ANNOUNCE: DadWifi, a port of MadWifi to d80211 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:08:54 -1000 Message-ID: <70D11CC2-CCBD-4158-ABD4-38481B51F08B@netgate.com> References: <20061018001403.GA22990@devicescape.com> <20061018101605.GA1767@infradead.org> <4536D265.3090307@mattb.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christoph Hellwig , netdev@vger.kernel.org, madwifi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4536D265.3090307@mattb.net.nz> To: Matt Brown List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: madwifi-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: madwifi-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Oct 18, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Matt Brown wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> Guys, why do you waste your time on doing stuff that's useless for >> most >> of us, and that people can't even legally redistribute. > > Well that may be your opinion, but it's certainly not mine. We had > just > discussed starting an in-house project to port the HAL to the d80211 > stack when David made his announcement. > > The reason? While we'd obviously prefer that the HAL didn't exist, if > it's going to exist we would far rather that it had a common 80211 > stack > on top of it, so that we can easily switch to other chipsets and > retain > the same featureset. > > Reducing the number of 80211 stacks in use in Linux is a great thing. Of course, the net80211 stack in FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD is the only stack (as of 6.x, anyway), and it supports ... multiple chipsets. d80211 bought you nothing here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642