On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:32 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > Well at the moment the cfg80211/nl80211 updates have had a great impact > on our CVS tree. So it is starting to look like we are going to drop our CVS > version if we don't find a backwards compatibility for vanilla kernels for it. Well, we had to start looking forward somewhere. I wish we'd gotten our cfg80211 wext-compat hooks into mainline but unfortunately that isn't so. > Working the other way around will have a negative (But as mentioned above > a probably unescapable) side effect. 90% of our testers use the CVS against > vanilla kernels, and I cannot see them swicthing to the wireless-dev tree. > So I could switch (it is already under consideration) but it will cost us a lot > of testers.. :( Intel is providing snapshots for this stuff and I think James is still trying to figure out if there's any chance to provide cfg80211 w/o patches to mainline, which may just work until critical functionality mac80211 is moved over to cfg80211 instead of wext. johannes
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