Search Linux Wireless

Re: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Imre Kaloz [mailto:kaloz@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 2:50 AM
>> To: David Lin; Jonas Gorski
>> Cc: Johannes Berg; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Chor Teck Law; Pete
>> Hsieh
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.
>>
>> On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:38:32 +0200, Jonas Gorski <jogo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> >>> I think it would be good to have some more precise description here
>> >>> (something like "Marvell 88W8864/8897 PCIe driver with AP
>> support").
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Will change the title from "Marvell Wireless Wi-Fi driver (mwlwifi)"
>> >> to "Marvell 88W8864/88W8897 PCIe driver with AP support".
>> >
>> > As Imre pointed out, mwifiex also supports AP mode, so this is not a
>> > good description.
>
> We have explained a few times on this... Pls read about the difference of mwifiex vs mwlwifi. There is a NOTE added to the description of KConfig of mwlwifi.
>
> Would the community prefer this description instead: "Marvell 88W8864/88W8897 driver with MAC80211 support"?

Let's keep the name as is and do a cleanup / naming discussion
seperate of that. This should not block the acceptance of the driver.


Jonas
--
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



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux