On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Dan Williams wrote: > Some of the issues with the current Marvell 83xx GPL drivers that have > gotten out are (a) code style, (b) lots of commented out stuff that's > never used, (c) OS abstraction that's unnecessary on Linux, (d) doesn't > use mac80211, and (e) uses private ioctls. So hopefully you're writing > a new 83xx driver from scratch :) Yes, this is all from scratch. The objective for this work is to be "mainlinable". > We cleaned up a lot of stuff for the OLPC 8388 libertas driver, but > unfortunately we never were able to get the Marvell 8388 team onboard, > and so they just went off and kept working on their driver and didn't > really move the upstream libertas driver forward at all. Libertas is a rather different beast. Nicolas -- 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
