Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:20:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, jslaby@suse.cz,
       stephen@symmetric.co.nz, Ben Martel <benm@symmetric.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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

Well, it is

- 4G UMTS PPP networking hardware
- PCMCIA
- which presents itself as a serial character device (i.e. looks like 
  usual modem to userspace, accepts AT commands, etc)

So my opinion is that it's very far away from what actually is in 
drivers/net/wireless. It's not 802.x network card in any sense.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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