From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758432AbYDOILO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:11:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753570AbYDOIK5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:10:57 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:5218 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752334AbYDOIKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:10:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UmSXhUJn2l3SeFtCiSvb+tg4vDw3l9othKt3cIi/FOtPxysrZ6d//hzGIx47K4bbpW0xdILsUjr7HSA1iZ3caDFASlmgVO+Crd9+PA4yoFz4aEmy/qDmzzdDoVyWd/5mT0Tu6wvPHZ+uCvaY3+J1gXwkerqt0gh/N7AdV1iUN3M= Message-ID: <544ab8580804150110x2f1841b4m7ebd43f1a6441458@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:10:53 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=E1roly_Kasza?=" To: "Pavel Machek" Subject: Re: w35und: add softmac interface Cc: "John W. Linville" , "kernel list" , lcostantino@gmail.com, someone@dunanet.hu In-Reply-To: <20080415070923.GA13767@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080414224740.GA31431@elf.ucw.cz> <20080415002826.GC4270@tuxdriver.com> <20080415070923.GA13767@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > This adds softmac interface to w35und driver... so it becomes monster > > > driver with _two_ interfaces. > > > > > > If you initialize hardmac interface, then softmac starts to > > > works... it associates to AP, and can even ping. > > > > > > (Or at least I hope so... it was somewhat too easy.) > > > > > OK, I'm late to the party...what is this stuff going into > > drivers/net/wireless? > > Actually you are about month early to the party ;-). We are trying to > clean up winbond usb wireless driver, so that it can think about > inclusion in kernel. > > http://code.google.com/p/winbondport/ > > Unfortunately, original driver carries its own 802.11 stack with it; > that needs to be stripped down. (And then code needs to be rewritten > due to horrible coding style). > Pavel > Hi! Last weekend we have started to rewrite the whole code based on rtl8187's softmac driver. The wlan0 device init with it's own mac is ok, but thats all so far. I think it would be more sane to just drop the old driver now (it would take more work the correct the old one), and create a new svn branch for the softmac only brand new one. KK