Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] Ubuntu patch sync
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:46:50 +0000
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On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:45 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> After dealing with literally dozens of upstream drivers, I think the
> reasons boil down to a few categories:

> <...>

You missed one:

5 - They've implemented Yet Another IEEE802.11 stack instead of
embracing and extending the Intel one we already have, and are hence
urinating into the atmospheric disturbance.

That's one of the reasons why I merged bcm43xx and softmac into the
Fedora kernel and none of the others, FWIW -- Johannes is actually
working on improving what we have in the kernel, rather than just saying
"You have to throw it all away because $MYSTACK is better". So I figure
softmac has a _much_ better chance of going upstream, even if its
feature list isn't quite as comprehensive yet.

http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/softmac-2.6.git

-- 
dwmw2

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