Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262780AbUCOW5y (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:57:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262667AbUCOW5y (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:57:54 -0500 Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:1973 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262780AbUCOWzo (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:55:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:55:38 -0800 To: Pavel Machek Cc: Jeff Garzik , Jouni Malinen , James Ketrenos , Christoph Hellwig , "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com, Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Intersil Prism54 wireless driver Message-ID: <20040315225538.GA7251@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <20040304023524.GA19453@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20040310165548.A24693@infradead.org> <20040310172114.GA8867@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <404F5097.4040406@pobox.com> <20040310175200.GA9531@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <404F5744.1040201@pobox.com> <404FA6AC.7040009@linux.co.intel.com> <20040311023141.GB3738@jm.kir.nu> <404FD23C.4020205@pobox.com> <20040315221826.GA305@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040315221826.GA305@elf.ucw.cz> 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: 1502 Lines: 33 On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:18:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On St 10-03-04 21:43:08, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Jouni Malinen wrote: > > >done, I would hope to get the code merged into the kernel tree either > > >with full Host AP driver or separately. One option would be to first add > > >Host AP driver in its current structure (i.e., everything in > > >drivers/net/wireless) and then create a new directory (net/ieee80211 ?) > > >for generic IEEE 802.11 functionality and start moving things like the > > >IEEE 802.11 encryption into the new location. > > > > Given the discussion today, I think my preference is to merge all of > > HostAP into the wireless-2.6 tree I just created, then submit patches to > > that which create and populate net/802_11. Once the work on that is > > mostly done, it can get merged back into the main upstream tree. > > Can we have net/wifi? 802_11 looks ugly. 802.11 would be better, but > wifi seems best. > Pavel IEEE 802.11 is a technical standard. WiFi is a marketing certification. There are 802.11 products which are not WiFi certified (actually, there is one such driver already in the kernel). By the way, I don't really care about the final name, I'm hust being pedantic ;-) 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/