Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008

From: Nicolas Pitre
Date: Mon Jul 21 2008 - 12:46:47 EST


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:14 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Some of the issues with the current Marvell 83xx GPL drivers that have
> > > gotten out are (a) code style, (b) lots of commented out stuff that's
> > > never used, (c) OS abstraction that's unnecessary on Linux, (d) doesn't
> > > use mac80211, and (e) uses private ioctls. So hopefully you're writing
> > > a new 83xx driver from scratch :)
> >
> > Yes, this is all from scratch. The objective for this work is to be
> > "mainlinable".
>
> BTW, any chance on putting up a git repo somewhere so others can poke
> around with it? I'm quite interested in hacking on it.

Eventually, of course. Let's discuss f2f tomorrow.


Nicolas
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