2007-10-02 09:50:56

by Michael Büsch

Subject: What happened with z1211?

Hi John,

What happened with the z1211 driver in wireless-2.6?
It's not there anymore. There's only the old zd1211rw
and zd1211rw-mac80211 stuff. Did you rename it again?

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Greetings Michael.

2007-10-02 20:42:28

by Michael Büsch

Subject: Re: What happened with z1211?

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 18:33:18 Daniel Drake wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > What happened with the z1211 driver in wireless-2.6?
> > It's not there anymore. There's only the old zd1211rw
> > and zd1211rw-mac80211 stuff. Did you rename it again?
>
> We aren't going to rename the driver, we're going to directly port
> drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw to mac80211 when we're ready. John has put
> it back as zd1211rw-mac80211 for now to allow development to continue.
> Don't use the zd1211rw-mac80211 branch though (it won't compile),
> develop against 'everything' as usual.

When is that port going to happen then?
I mean, the drop of z1211 is a huge regression for me, as I am
using it in production environment.

--
Greetings Michael.

2007-10-02 21:05:30

by Michael Büsch

Subject: Re: What happened with z1211?

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 23:02:47 Daniel Drake wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > When is that port going to happen then?
> > I mean, the drop of z1211 is a huge regression for me, as I am
> > using it in production environment.
>
> We're aiming for 2.6.25. Right now zd1211rw-mac80211 does not really
> provide any big user advantages over zd1211rw so you should be able to
> use the existing driver until then.

Well, softmac is crap and has several race conditions that mac8021
does not have. That's the actual problem. ;)

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Greetings Michael.

2007-10-02 21:03:25

by Daniel Drake

Subject: Re: What happened with z1211?

Michael Buesch wrote:
> When is that port going to happen then?
> I mean, the drop of z1211 is a huge regression for me, as I am
> using it in production environment.

We're aiming for 2.6.25. Right now zd1211rw-mac80211 does not really
provide any big user advantages over zd1211rw so you should be able to
use the existing driver until then.

Daniel

2007-10-02 16:33:59

by Daniel Drake

Subject: Re: What happened with z1211?

Michael Buesch wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> What happened with the z1211 driver in wireless-2.6?
> It's not there anymore. There's only the old zd1211rw
> and zd1211rw-mac80211 stuff. Did you rename it again?

We aren't going to rename the driver, we're going to directly port
drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw to mac80211 when we're ready. John has put
it back as zd1211rw-mac80211 for now to allow development to continue.
Don't use the zd1211rw-mac80211 branch though (it won't compile),
develop against 'everything' as usual.

Thanks,
Daniel