Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f222.google.com ([209.85.218.222]:40065 "EHLO mail-bw0-f222.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752103AbZEaMU6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 May 2009 08:20:58 -0400 Received: by bwz22 with SMTP id 22so6965354bwz.37 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 05:20:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1243771847.5248.10.camel@maxim-laptop> References: <1242872340-27417-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <20090526222433.GA23972@bombadil.infradead.org> <1243736227.3623.180.camel@debian> <43e72e890905302327x23d0479bkb825ea05832c5ffd@mail.gmail.com> <1243752126.3623.375.camel@debian> <1243771847.5248.10.camel@maxim-laptop> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:20:39 +0200 Message-ID: <69e28c910905310520u3e9c30cfv8f2a9c7eefd9bfcd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Announce] Intel Wireless Multicomm 3200 WiFi driver To: Maxim Levitsky Cc: Zhu Yi , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:42 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:27 +0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > >> > What is the 11n configuration on these devices? Do they have 2 >> > streams? Or are they just 1 stream? >> >> It has 1x1, 1x2 and 2x2 on for both 20MHz and 40MHz channels. The >> firmware HT support is not quite ready at this point. So we haven't done >> anything 11n related in the driver yet. > > I have small question: > > This is a fullmac driver, thus if I understand correctly, it behaves on > the outside more like an Ethernet adapter. > This will mean that many things possible with normal softmac card won't > be possible, like sending raw packets, etc... > (and besides I belive that hardware is more or less the same, but more > functionality is pushed down to firmware, and more firmware code equals > to bigger probability of bugs that aren't possible to triage and solve > easily. > > Does this device indicate that intel moves away from softmac devices, or > this is a device that will mostly be used in some dedicated market > sector (embedded devices for example)? > > > Best regards, > ? ? ? ?Maxim Levitsky > Probably it is fullmac because it is for embedded platforms. That's also what it being an SDIO device suggests. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)