On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:26:11 -0800 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 13:55 +0300, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > > Hi All. > > > > I'm the author of madwimax (http://code.google.com/p/madwimax/). I > > was thinking about the future of my project :) and it seems that > > the only way forward is to integrate it into the Linux-wimax stack > > somehow: > > > > * by porting drivers to the kernel > > I'd rather this stuff wasn't done in userspace actually; while > userspace provides most of the capabilities, there may be some stuff > that requires kernel space to fully integrate, including possibly > hardware detection and full sysfs device tree support? Like having > the network interface hanging off the physical USB hardware device in > sysfs. I agree. There is no problem with hot plugging because udev deals with this. And sysfs is not integration is not a big problem as well. But there is no way to deal with suspend/resume currently. Probably wecan subscribe to some acpid/d-bus notifications. But it's getting to complicated. There were two main reasons why I started the project as a user-space driver: * I had no kernel programming experience * portability The first reason is not an issue anymore, but the second is still urgent. > I've been trying to get a Samsung WiMAX device (ideally the > ExpressCard) for a long time. Can I PayPal you some money for one of > the Yota ExpressCard ones? I'd take a stab at making a kernel driver > for it, or working off the existing attempt to port madwimax to the > kernel. OK, no problem. Let's arrange this privately. -- Alexander -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 489 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.linuxwimax.org/pipermail/wimax/attachments/20100209/b8c4ec05/attachment.pgp>
