Return-path: Received: from smtpauth12.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.35]:43994 "HELO smtpauth12.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756082AbXGYBGA (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:06:00 -0400 Message-ID: <46A6A1F7.202@seclark.us> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:05:59 -0400 From: Stephen Clark Reply-To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: jeff@garzik.org, jketreno@linux.intel.com, axjslack@bluebottle.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] Request for help... References: <46A69998.7020108@seclark.us> <20070724.173529.48529759.davem@davemloft.net> <46A69CA1.5020706@seclark.us> <20070724.174641.105428420.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070724.174641.105428420.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: >From: Stephen Clark >Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:43:13 -0400 > > > >>So if someone in "the community" really wanted to help Intel why >>don't they take the code Intel posts to the ipw3945 ml and put it >>into where ever it is really supposed to go? >> >> > >Because it's better to teach someone how to fish than to continually >fish for them. > > > David, I understand what you are saying on one hand, but you are also saying that Intel is by themselves and no one in the community is going to help, if Intel can't figure out how to do it the right way. What I am saying why can't someone in the community be a liason between what Intel is doing and wireless-dev? Why does it have to be someone from Intel? -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)