Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262872AbTENU7h (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 16:59:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262873AbTENU7h (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 16:59:37 -0400 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:63162 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262872AbTENU7f (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 16:59:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 14:12:22 -0700 To: Linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik Cc: David Gibson , Benjamin Reed , Javier Achirica , Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v3 Message-ID: <20030514211222.GA10453@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2081 Lines: 51 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... Jean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/