Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008 |
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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
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