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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Broadcom 43xx first results
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:24:57 -0800
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On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:14:03 +0100
Michael Renzmann <netdev@nospam.otaku42.de> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:00 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > Why yet another attempt to write 802.11 stack? Sure, the one currently
> > in the kernel is unusable and everybody knows about it. But why not to
> > improve code opensourced by Devicescape some time ago instead of
> > inventing the wheel again and again?
> 
> Or, in case there is some unknown objection to the mentioned code: use
> the 802.11 stack that comes along with MadWifi, which provides things
> like virtual interfaces (for multiple SSID support on one physical card)
> and WPA support.
> 
> Although I'm a bit biased towards MadWifi, I'd second your suggestion to
> make use of the Devicescape code. The benefit of having a fully-blown
> 802.11 stack in the kernel that drivers can make use of has been
> discussed before, so I won't go into that yet again.
> 

Please use or extend the existing net/ieee80211 stack in 2.6.
The defacto plan is to convert all wifi drivers that need software
support to use that.

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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger
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