Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:28:16 -0800
From: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>, lwn@lwn.net,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>, madwifi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Madwifi-devel] ANNOUNCE: SFLC helps developers assessar5k	(enabling free Atheros HAL)
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:39:01PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:21 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> I said it before, and it's worth repeating.  Dissolving HAL in the
> sources is easy.  It's just a matter of moving functions around without
> serious chances of breaking anything as long as the source compiles.
> The whole "HAL-based architecture" can be reshuffled and eliminated by
> one person in a few days.
> 
> Making things work properly takes years.  That's what MadWifi has been
> working on for a long time, using contributions and bug reports from
> scores of users and developers.
> 
> Rejecting MadWifi because it's HAL based is like throwing away a diamond
> ring because it's too narrow.

I completely agree.  The approach we are taking with dadwifi[1] is to
use much of the existing code from madwifi and port it to the d80211
stack.  Today dadwifi works in monitor, sta and ap mode.

-David


[1] http://madwifi.org/wiki/DadWifi

> 
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> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
> 
> 
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