Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/15] Ubuntu patch sync | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:46:50 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:45 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > After dealing with literally dozens of upstream drivers, I think the > reasons boil down to a few categories:
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You missed one:
5 - They've implemented Yet Another IEEE802.11 stack instead of embracing and extending the Intel one we already have, and are hence urinating into the atmospheric disturbance.
That's one of the reasons why I merged bcm43xx and softmac into the Fedora kernel and none of the others, FWIW -- Johannes is actually working on improving what we have in the kernel, rather than just saying "You have to throw it all away because $MYSTACK is better". So I figure softmac has a _much_ better chance of going upstream, even if its feature list isn't quite as comprehensive yet.
http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/softmac-2.6.git
-- dwmw2
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