On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 17:48 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:17 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > > Make the stack depend on EXPERIMENTAL. Also, change the name from "dscape" > > to "mac80211". > > Why is it needed to make mac80211 EXPERIMENTAL? With mac80211 already > in Ubuntu 7.04 and in the forthcoming Fedora 7, it must have received > more testing than some drivers not marked as EXPERIMENTAL. It's still just not there yet, especially WRT compatibility behavior for WEXT. I don't know if that justifies EXPERIMENTAL status, but most drivers don't appear to be production ready, from user reports. Dan > I don't think enabling mac80211 per se would destabilize the kernel. > Individual drivers could be marked experimental. In particular, > bcm43xx_mac80211 needs such designation, since the softmac version is > much better currently. > > If we encourage enabling mac80211, it would make it easier for the users > to compile and test mac80211 based drivers, such as iwlwifi. Even > bcm43xx_mac80211 could be packaged separately to allow compilation > against an existing kernel for the users who want to test it without > upgrading the kernel. > > In my opinion, marking mac80211 as EXPERIMENTAL would hinder testing of > mac80211 drivers without having any positive effect on the users who > want stability. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
