Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:28:16 -0800 | From | David Kimdon <> | Subject | Re: [Madwifi-devel] ANNOUNCE: SFLC helps developers assessar5k (enabling free Atheros HAL) |
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:39:01PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:21 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > I said it before, and it's worth repeating. Dissolving HAL in the > sources is easy. It's just a matter of moving functions around without > serious chances of breaking anything as long as the source compiles. > The whole "HAL-based architecture" can be reshuffled and eliminated by > one person in a few days. > > Making things work properly takes years. That's what MadWifi has been > working on for a long time, using contributions and bug reports from > scores of users and developers. > > Rejecting MadWifi because it's HAL based is like throwing away a diamond > ring because it's too narrow.
I completely agree. The approach we are taking with dadwifi[1] is to use much of the existing code from madwifi and port it to the d80211 stack. Today dadwifi works in monitor, sta and ap mode.
-David
[1] http://madwifi.org/wiki/DadWifi
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