Johannes Berg wrote:
orinoco_pci.c
orinoco_pci.c is a good candidate for removal. It only supports the
hardware that is already supported by hostap_pci.
Wait wait. I think everybody would rather see hostap go than orinoco
since hostap is a huge complex thing and quite buggy.
I really disagree with this statement. Until kernel version 2.6.21 the
hostap driver was used very widely by the wifi security community
because of it's great abilities for monitor mode and frame injection.
In kernel 2.6.21 there was a change that made the injection patches not
work and my ability is insufficient to fix this regression, however, the
orinoco driver has always had morbid issues with simple things such as
monitor mode.
I understand that hostap needs some work, and it would be nice if
someone volunteered to help fix the packet injection, but removing this
driver in favor of orinoco_cs would be a serious regression.
thanks,
Rick Farina
johannes
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