Hi John, > Almost 9 years ago, Jeff Garzik wrote a message on LKML detailing > the sad state of wireless LANs in the Linux world. The point of his > message was "So... there it is. We suck. There's hope. No Luke > Skywalker in sight.": > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/5/671 > > Shortly thereafter, I became the maintainer for wireless LANs in the > Linux kernel: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/18/377 > > Since then, we have had a number of wireless summit meetings all around > the world. Items were discussed, patches were merged, and friendships > were made. Over time, we garnered support from a large range of > wireless networking vendors. Eventually even other technologies > were sending their patches through my trees, and I was consistently > ranked amongst the top 10 "gate keepers" for getting changes into the > Linux kernel. In fact, a couple of years ago I even gave a talk on > how Linux wireless got better. It has been quite a ride! > > https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lfcs2012_linville.pdf > > Nevertheless, I think it is time for some changes. I have been > the wireless maintainer for a long time, and I personally would > like to develop in a different direction. Plus, I think that Linux > will benefit from having some fresh blood involved in more of the > maintenance duties. I will be stepping aside to let that happen. > > The mac80211, bluetooth, and nfc trees have fed through me for some > time. I am now asking these trees to send pull request directly to > David Miller. Since these trees are managed through git, my hope is > that they will not place any significant burden on Dave. it has been a pleasure merging Bluetooth (and lately IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN) patches through the Wireless tree. Thank you so much for all your hard work in making it easy for the sub-subsystem maintainers. Hope you find some new fun stuff to work on. Regards Marcel -- 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
