From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael Buesch" <mb@bu3sch.de>,
"Stefanik Gábor" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:18 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807151404530.12484@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216144711.13411.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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".
> We cleaned up a lot of stuff for the OLPC 8388 libertas driver, but
> unfortunately we never were able to get the Marvell 8388 team onboard,
> and so they just went off and kept working on their driver and didn't
> really move the upstream libertas driver forward at all.
Libertas is a rather different beast.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-09 19:09 John W. Linville
2008-07-10 0:13 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-10 6:52 ` Ron Rindjunsky
2008-07-10 14:30 ` Kalle Valo
2008-07-11 1:41 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-07-11 4:46 ` Kalle Valo
2008-07-10 6:41 ` Mark Ryden
2008-07-10 7:21 ` Holger Schurig
2008-07-10 7:23 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-10 10:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-10 10:50 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-10 14:31 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-10 15:15 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-07-10 15:52 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2008-07-10 16:12 ` Stefanik Gábor
2008-07-10 16:15 ` Michael Buesch
2008-07-15 17:16 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-15 17:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-15 17:58 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-15 18:02 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-15 18:14 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2008-07-15 18:38 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-21 14:23 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-21 16:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-14 15:05 ` Guy Cohen
2008-07-15 17:42 ` John W. Linville
2008-07-15 18:15 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-16 8:24 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-16 16:27 ` Dan Williams
2008-07-14 15:43 ` Guy Cohen
2008-07-15 18:26 ` REVISED AGENDA -- " John W. Linville
2008-07-16 18:48 ` 2nd " John W. Linville
2008-07-16 19:58 ` John W. Linville
2008-07-17 10:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-07-17 10:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-07-18 23:23 ` 3rd " John W. Linville
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