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Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:27:09 +0100

> zd1211rw-mac80211 does not currently add anything to the user experience 
> over the existing driver, other than automatic rate adaption which is 
> nice but hasn't proven itself to be of much importance given that the 
> existing driver has lots of happy users and has never done it.

Ok.

> Also, this merge has been proposed in a form other than what me and 
> Ulrich were envisioning (at least from earlier discussions). We want to 
> convert drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw to mac80211 directly. This would 
> also avoid a rename and I think would save some hassle.
> 
> Sorry to be a pain, but I really would like some more time to catch up 
> and make some last changes. I haven't yet even looked at Johannes' 
> minimal filter flags implementation in the driver or Michael's fix.
> 
> Would you agree to let this wait until 2.6.25? You can hold me to that, 
> although Ulrich should also comment on if he thinks he'd be ready by then.

Fair enough, I'll remove the Z1211 driver during my next rebase.
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