Re: w35und: add softmac interface

From: John W. Linville
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 09:59:34 EST


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:22:41AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > This adds softmac interface to w35und driver... so it becomes monster
> > > driver with _two_ interfaces.
> > >
> > > If you initialize hardmac interface, then softmac starts to
> > > works... it associates to AP, and can even ping.
> > >
> > > (Or at least I hope so... it was somewhat too easy.)
> >
> > OK, I'm late to the party...what is this stuff going into
> > drivers/net/wireless?
>
> Actually you are about month early to the party ;-). We are trying to
> clean up winbond usb wireless driver, so that it can think about
> inclusion in kernel.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/winbondport/
>
> Unfortunately, original driver carries its own 802.11 stack with it;
> that needs to be stripped down. (And then code needs to be rewritten
> due to horrible coding style).

I see...OK.

Did you get any legal advice regarding whether or not
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") was sufficient to proclaim the driver as covered
by the GPL?

John
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