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SubjectRe: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008
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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