Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:37:19 -0500
From: Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: future of prism2_usb (aka wlan-ng) in staging tree
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:31:11AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> This seems like a good point to clarify what it takes for a wireless
> driver to be added to net/wireless.
>=20
> Is it necessary that any new softmac driver in net/wireless must use
> mac80211, or is it sufficient that it implement cfg80211?

IMO a softmac driver should use mac80211 before being merged; there's no=20
sense in having multiple 802.11 stacks especially with the ever-growing=20
complexity of 802.11.

But in this particular case, prism2_usb/wlan-ng is perhaps the original=20
fullmac 802.11 device.  :)

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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