Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751619AbWANJeQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:34:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751629AbWANJeQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:34:16 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:19975 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751546AbWANJd4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:33:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:37:32 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Tim Tassonis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: State of the Union: Wireless Message-ID: <20060111203731.GF2456@ucw.cz> References: <43C3AAE2.1090900@cubic.ch> <20060110125357.GH3911@stusta.de> <43C3B7C8.8000708@cubic.ch> <20060110141324.GJ3911@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060110141324.GJ3911@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 22 Hi! > > Like the OSS/Alsa or XFree3.x/XFree4.x situations. > > And OSS/ALSA is an example why this is not a good thing: > - OSS in the kernel is unmaintained > - people forced to use OSS drivers can't use applications only > supporting ALSA Well, it is different. Current ieee80211 stack is going to be maintained by Intel -- because they need it for their hw. And it will be very easy to find maintainer for the new stack... So we already have two-stack situation here. -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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/