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Re: plan for libertas and mac80211 and cfg80211

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On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 16:52 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:28 -0500, Cliff Brake wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am using the marvell 8686 in several projects.  Is there any plan to
> > move the libertas driver to mac80211 in the future?  
> 
> There's the libertas_tf driver that uses a different firmware, the
> libertas driver uses a smarter firmware that's "too smart" to be used
> with mac80211.

libertas_tf thin firmware is only compatible with usb8388 cards at this
time.

> > If not, will
> > cfg80211 mechanisms be supported with this driver?
> 
> Depends which mechanisms and who's interested in doing any work on it.

Yes, we're interested in porting to cfg80211 and I definitely see that
in the future.

Dan


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