Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762113AbYGOSOc (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757029AbYGOSOU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:20 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:21190 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754883AbYGOSOT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:19 -0400 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicolas Pitre X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home To: Dan Williams Cc: Michael Buesch , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Stefanik_G=E1bor?= , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkml Subject: Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008 In-reply-to: <1216144711.13411.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-id: References: <20080709190915.GA8238@tuxdriver.com> <69e28c910807100912h30fcb57fpb4fb48b95c640f77@mail.gmail.com> <200807101815.27204.mb@bu3sch.de> <1216142191.6039.113.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1216144711.13411.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 25 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Dan Williams wrote: > Some of the issues with the current Marvell 83xx GPL drivers that have > gotten out are (a) code style, (b) lots of commented out stuff that's > never used, (c) OS abstraction that's unnecessary on Linux, (d) doesn't > use mac80211, and (e) uses private ioctls. So hopefully you're writing > a new 83xx driver from scratch :) Yes, this is all from scratch. The objective for this work is to be "mainlinable". > We cleaned up a lot of stuff for the OLPC 8388 libertas driver, but > unfortunately we never were able to get the Marvell 8388 team onboard, > and so they just went off and kept working on their driver and didn't > really move the upstream libertas driver forward at all. Libertas is a rather different beast. Nicolas -- 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/