Subject: Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:23:44 -0400
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On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:14 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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".

BTW, any chance on putting up a git repo somewhere so others can poke
around with it?  I'm quite interested in hacking on it.

Dan