Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:45753 "EHLO fmmailgate03.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751392AbYDDLRw (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 07:17:52 -0400 From: Chr To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] p54: various updates Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 04:07:51 +0200 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Michael Wu" , "John Linville" , "Johannes Berg" References: <200804012339.37204.chunkeey@web.de> <200804031740.33177.chunkeey@web.de> <43e72e890804031534y2afdc8d4h1154414df2ccdcd3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e890804031534y2afdc8d4h1154414df2ccdcd3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <200804040407.52432.chunkeey@web.de> (sfid-20080404_121757_185034_8DAE3C43) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 04 April 2008 00:34:35 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Chr wrote: > > On Thursday 03 April 2008 01:42:59 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > Thanks, can you resend as inline patches so it can help get better > > > review. Also while you're at it can you stuff all p54 files into its > > > own folder? > > > > hmm, I can.... but: > > - in which folder? for now.. I put everything into a new one folder > > named p54, but as you know the fullmac driver has already the prism54 > > subdirectory... should I put it there? or is this confusing? > > p54 directory works nice. Now that you are introducing master mode the > only thing left I think is IBSS compared to prism54, and if that is > done I think we should *consider* removing prism54 driver after one > release cycle of the kernel. I once was told that for some cards the > softmac driver wouldn't work on some fullmac chipsets. I have yet to > hear of someone who found these type of cards though. I know we also > had some WDS code for prism54 lying around, it just never got merged > in because Jeff didn't find it widely used and IIRC it needed a little > more cleanup. > > Think you can get IBSS and maybe WDS to work too? > Hmm, AFAIK they were thinking of the 3877 (802.11a only)... I guess this one won't work with p54. But have you ever see anyone (except the Intersil/Conexant people) with a 5Ghz prism card at all? It'll be interesting to get a eeprom dump from them... About WDS: is there anything special about WDS, that I should know? Since, I thought it's entirely done by mac80211 by now? About IBSS: yes, it is kind of working... I'll put some code for this in the next round. > > - the resulting patch is too big to post it here, ~ 271kb as > > plaintext... is a bz2 (32kb) attachment ok too? > > Oh OK, I see. Can you perhaps split the big patch up into a few series? that'll be about 3 or 4 parts... tomorrow! I have to figure out how I can split up the _big_ one. Regards, Chr