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From: "Ian Brown" <ianbrn@gmail.com>
Subject: wireless softmac origin (net/ieee80211/softmac)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 17:19:17 +0300
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Hello,
I am looking at 2.6.17-rc3 kernel.
 I wonder: what is the origin of softmac in
2.6.17-rc3 kernel ?
I see in the *.c files under that folder:
Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
 *                          Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
 *                          Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
 *                          Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
 *                          Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>

Is this softmac layer was written from scratch ? or was it
taken (fully/partially) from softmac in the devicescape linux kernel stack ?
http://devicescape.com/

Best,
IB