From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:54:09 -0500 Message-ID: <9e4733910701181454k3d01f018hddbe0568d14f6d8f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070116185524.GA5681@dmt> <1169020333.9175.15.camel@johannes.berg> <20070117184204.GA3899@dmt> <20070117230654.GA9387@infradead.org> <1169134905.2788.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070118224008.GA6675@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Dan Williams" , "Marcelo Tosatti" , "Johannes Berg" , netdev , "Jeff Garzik" , "John W. Linville" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Arnd Bergmann" , "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.239]:25684 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932734AbXARWyK (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:54:10 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so258956nze for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:54:10 -0800 (PST) To: "Christoph Hellwig" In-Reply-To: <20070118224008.GA6675@infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 1/18/07, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:41:45AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > In the future we'll likely need some layering to support the 8385 > > SDIO/CF variant, but most likely not in way the USB support is currently > > excessively layered and abstracted. > > Yeah. Let's summarize my unfortunately a bit too nasty comments and > your more helpfull replies :-) > > This driver still needs a lot more work, both to cleanup a lot of crap > and integrate it better with the wireless stack. And OLPC needs this > is not going to be an excuse of it's own. The main feature of this chip is the on-chip support for 802.11s in firmware. What is the plan for integrating 802.11s into the existing wireless stacks? Does it make sense to do a softmac type 802.11s implementation first to figure out the right places to put the hooks for the 8388 hardware implementation? -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com