Return-path: Received: from mail.tpi.com ([198.107.51.143]:3560 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752131AbYI0PeM (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:34:12 -0400 Message-ID: <48DE5268.3050205@canonical.com> (sfid-20080927_173418_558798_AECCADA2) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:34:00 -0600 From: Tim Gardner MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-wireless CC: "John W. Linville" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC References: <20080926215701.GC5972@tesla> <20080927143852.GB3392@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20080927143852.GB3392@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices >> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for >> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license. >> >> You can find it here: >> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2 >> >> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move >> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in >> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the >> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux. > > Awesome...simply, awesome! > > I hereby nominate Atheros for this year's "Most Improved Open Source > Corporate Citizen" award! :-) > > Great job, Luis! > > John Luis _has_ done a great job. Having dealt with Atheros in another life, I can appreciate the mountains he's moved. I would also offer my appreciation to those unnamed, enlightened individuals within Atheros that made this possible. Nothing would please me more then to be able to drop the madwifi HAL in favor of full support from ath5k. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com