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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:15:30PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 
> >1) Most Wireless LAN driver live outside the kernel. So, their
> >evolution is somewhat decoupled to the kernel, so the earlier the
> >patch goes it the better it is for those.
> >
> As you may have gathered from my last email, this is a bit annoying when 
> trying to find and stabalize a driver for a card you just got :)

> >	2) David Gibson, maintainer of the Orinoco driver, told me
> >that he would merge my new-API orinoco patches in his driver only when
> >the new API would be in 2.4.x (as you may have noticed, he hasn't
> >updated 2.5.X for a while). Chicken and Eggs.
> >
> Does that mean orinoco updates are coming for 2.5.x?

Yes, I'll try to send some in.  When 2.5 had just started I figured
Linus was busy enough with the bio stuff and the driver updates could
wait, since then I've been busy with other things so I haven't gotten
around to sending patches.

AFAIK none of the APIs which are relevant to me have changed so it
should just be a matter of copying the files across from 2.4.

-- 
David Gibson			| For every complex problem there is a
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au	| solution which is simple, neat and
				| wrong.  -- H.L. Mencken
http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson

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