Subject: Re: Guidelines regarding separate directory
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:13:28 -0400
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On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:01 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 23:10 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Quoting Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>:
> 
> > The WPA support in orinoco is limited to Agere firmware.  Maybe Symbol  
> > firmware will be supported at some point.  But adding WPA support for  
> > Intersil firmware would duplicate efforts.
> 
> Yes, I know, but wouldn't adding that based on the hostap stuff be
> fairly simple? I know nobody has time to...
> 
> > The only thing I would like to change in hostap is that it should  
> > default to managed mode, like other drivers do.
> 
> No, that's not true, just see
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11802 for example. The AP
> part also duplicates a lot of mac80211 functionality.

Orinoco is a mostly-fullmac driver, while hostap is quasi-softmac,
right?

Dan