Message-ID: <47500D95.4020009@garzik.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:18:13 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card
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David Sterba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm submitting driver for IPWireless PC Card, used for 4G
> internet connection.
> The driver has been in -mm series as ipwireless_cs.git tree for
> some time, is actively used and there are currently no
> outstanding bugs.
> 
> I'd like to let the driver pass through LKML and then let it
> queue for 2.6.25.
> 
> Driver is released under GPL, original authorship belongs to
> Symmetric co. Jiri Kosina has fixed some bugs and made it work
> with recent kernels, and I work on improving the code to
> match linux kernel standards.
> 
> When merged, please drop ipwireless_cs.git tree from -mm and
> include the patch instead. Patches should be sent to me and I'll
> push them to mainline via Jeff Garzik's driver tree, if there's
> no objection.
> 
> Driver lives in drivers/char/pcmcia directory, it's a serial
> driver.  I'm not sure if this is the right place, since it's a
> networking driver too and therefore should be in
> drivers/net/pcmcia.
> 
> There will be a wiki with info for users and developers, todo etc.

If the -main- purpose of the hardware is wireless, it should go in via 
John Linville, wireless maintainer...

	Jeff


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