On Monday 22 September 2008 10:06:05 Kalle Valo wrote: > Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't have the p54 hardware (for regression testing) or the time to > add stlc45xx support to p54, and most probably there might be even > some legal implications which might prevent me of doing the work. So > somebody else would have to do the converge between p54 and stlc45xx. > Hmm, don't worry... you won't break p54 hardware with these chances, we did this before and I still could connect to my APs. Even better, Johannes wrote most of the code for "p54spi.c" already. I guess, we can reuse and fix his code, rather than reinventing the wheel once again. I'll take a look what can be done when I'm back next week. OT: Do you know if there's some way to get a card with a stlc45xx for or in a normal PC? > > Is this driver targeted for inclusion upstream? > > I'm very interested in mac80211 and would like to see it suitable for > embedded devices like N800/N810. The just announced stlc45xx driver > would be a perfect tool for that kind of development and having the > driver upstream would make development a lot easier. > > Features that I am interested in, just from the top of my head, are > proper roaming support, power save mode and beacon filtering. In my > opinion the biggest areas needing work are everything related to > mobility or the power consumption. Yes, this is definitely stuff that should go right into mac80211 stack and nowhere else. Therefore FULL ACK. Regards, Chr -- 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
