Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 14:12:22 -0700 | Subject | Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3 | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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Andrew Morton wrote : > > Quite a lot of changes here. Mostly additions, but some things have been > crossed off. > > Also at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix
I don't like making todo list for other people, because it's up to them to decide, but here is my wishlist for 2.6.X in term of Wireless stuff. I hope those concerned will react and send you their real todo list.
o get latest orinoco changes from David. Linus seems timely in picking David's changes, so I'm not worried about this one.
o get the latest airo.c fixes from CVS. This will hopefully fix problems people have reported on the LKML.
o get HostAP driver in the kernel. No consolidation of the 802.11 management across driver can happen until this one is in (which is probably 2.7.X material). I think Jouni is mostly ready but didn't find time for it.
o get more wireless drivers into the kernel. The most "integrable" drivers at this point seem the NWN driver, Pavel's Spectrum driver and the Atmel driver.
o The last two drivers mentioned above are held up by firmware issues (see flamewar on LKML a few days ago). So maybe fixing those firmware issues should be a requirement for 2.6.X, because we can expect more wireless devices to need firmware upload at startup coming to market. As this firmware business seems to me not a wireless specific issue (see for example drivers/scsi/qlogicfc_asm.c or drivers/atm/atmsar11.data), I would prefer a generic solution to that problem, either saying it's OK to put firmware in the kernel (with proper licensing) or providing working technical solutions. My personal position is that I don't want to hold wireless drivers in higher standard than other drivers in the kernel, and I don't want to leave those drivers in the black hole where they currently are.
Have fun...
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