From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][RFT][PATCH 0/5 v5] ar9170: ar9170 driver (aka mac80211's otus)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:12:57 +0100
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org
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On Friday 20 March 2009 22:25:15 Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:14:51PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > On Friday 20 March 2009 21:13:26 Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:36:08PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > > > Based on the number of mails I got, this driver should be ready for inclusion.
> > > > So, this is probably the last RFC and the official patches will follow on
> > > > sunday (only if no one finds a bug that needs to be fixed ASAP.)
> > > 
> > > Wonderful!
> > :-)
> > 
> > > When the driver goes into the "real" portion of drivers/net please let
> > > me know and I'll drop the otus driver from the drivers/staging/
> > > location.
> > Well, I doubt that we can replace Otus, ever...
> 
> Why, what is lacking in the version you have that is in the otus driver?
>
Well, a few features that the vendors uses to encourage potential buyers:
- HT ( 802.11n - aka 300mbps )
- ANI (ambient noise immunity - so it works in noisy environments),
- TPC/DFS (802.11h - crucial if you want to "blast" the 5GHz band 
		      in most countries)
- AP/AD-Hoc 

comes to my mind. That said I didn't really look into otus to see which
of these feature actually works as advertised

Nevertheless ar9170 should fit the bill for users with 802.11b/g
accesspoint just fine.

and of course one could always argue that 802.11n is !still! a draft,
5GHz is not very widespread yet, and ANI only helps on very weak links...

However, I suggest that we wait and see what's the situation when
the first ar9170 bits are about to enter vanilla... deal?

Regards,
	Chr