On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:14 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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. Obviously; this was just an observation about the last time we got a wireless driver from Marvell. I expect it to work out rather differently this time simply on the strength of your and Lennert's track-record, but if it's really just you two guys and you don't have buy-in from the actual hardware and software teams inside Marvell, it's hard to see how this wouldn't just happen again. Dan -- 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
