Re: [git patches] new wireless stuffs

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Jul 31 2005 - 08:05:55 EST


Hi!

> If this is post-2.6.13 material, that's fine.
>
> I've been getting tired of the slow movement of wireless. A little bit
> of that is my fault, certainly. I've also been wanting to get these net
> drivers out to Linux users.
>
> This adds HostAP, ipw2100, ipw2200, and the generic ieee80211 code. The
> only -changes- in this set are cosmetic.
>
> Further work is pending from SuSE and Intel [*poke* *poke* to them], but
> these should be working, and have been in -mm for quite a while.
>
> One big thing I'm still hoping for is that someone will merge HostAP
> (where ieee80211 code came from) with the ieee80211 generic code. The
> HostAP maintainer has been unwilling to do it, even though he has been
> good about keeping HostAP updated, so hopefully a volunteer will step up.
>
> Please pull from branch 'ieee80211-wifi' of
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git
>
> to obtain the changes described by the attached diffstat/changelog. The
> file additions were too large to attach, so I only attached the changes
> to existing files. Existing drivers merely had some struct renames (for
> new ieee80211 header), and some 'add "static" attribute' changes.

Wow, thanks!
Pavel

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