Subject: Re: PCI express card that does AP mode? (abit wlp-01?)
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:52:13 -0400
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On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 17:29 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> > From the
> > users' perspective, PCI and PCI Express are different busses and should
> > be listed separately.
> 
> I'm not sure. The ID spaces are the same really, and users really don't
> distinguish that much, for them PCI-E is just the new PCI technology
> with a different form factor. Kinda like mini-pci vs. pci.

We can have "form factors": PCI, CardBus, MiniPCI, PCIe and PCI
ExpressCard.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin