Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f176.google.com ([209.85.219.176]:56910 "EHLO mail-ew0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751695AbZEQMvO (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 08:51:14 -0400 Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so3478734ewy.37 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 05:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 14:51:10 +0200 From: "Christoph .J Thompson" To: Jon Fairbairn Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rt73usb Access point status Message-Id: <20090517145110.87b68ff2.cjsthompson@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <557754.25367.qm@web51403.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090512215817.bd1c6895.cjsthompson@gmail.com> <200905161132.21437.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:47:04 +0100 Jon Fairbairn wrote: > Ugh. But Microsoft make the de-facto standards after all :-( > -- for a view that's illuminating, if depressing and > annoying to those of us who think there's a point to > compatibility, watch the talk Butler Lampson gave for Roger > Needham's 50+5 presentation > > (list of talks is at > ) Haven't used Windows seriously in over a decade, but as far as WiFi drivers I think there is no standards. Windows drivers are just like the vendor drivers for Linux: everyone is doing their own thing. AFAIK only Linux has a framework for WiFi drivers and it should be praised for that as it makes WiFi configuration so much more consistent (and therefore easier) for the user. > > I am awaiting a patch from Alexandre which will add that same behavior > > to rt2x00. > > That would be great, thanks! Yes that would be great indeed, no more patching hostapd, but there should be a warning about the fragile nature of this. -- Christoph .J Thompson