On Friday 20 March 2009 22:25:15 Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:14:51PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > On Friday 20 March 2009 21:13:26 Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:36:08PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > > Based on the number of mails I got, this driver should be ready for inclusion. > > > > So, this is probably the last RFC and the official patches will follow on > > > > sunday (only if no one finds a bug that needs to be fixed ASAP.) > > > > > > Wonderful! > > :-) > > > > > When the driver goes into the "real" portion of drivers/net please let > > > me know and I'll drop the otus driver from the drivers/staging/ > > > location. > > Well, I doubt that we can replace Otus, ever... > > Why, what is lacking in the version you have that is in the otus driver? > Well, a few features that the vendors uses to encourage potential buyers: - HT ( 802.11n - aka 300mbps ) - ANI (ambient noise immunity - so it works in noisy environments), - TPC/DFS (802.11h - crucial if you want to "blast" the 5GHz band in most countries) - AP/AD-Hoc comes to my mind. That said I didn't really look into otus to see which of these feature actually works as advertised Nevertheless ar9170 should fit the bill for users with 802.11b/g accesspoint just fine. and of course one could always argue that 802.11n is !still! a draft, 5GHz is not very widespread yet, and ANI only helps on very weak links... However, I suggest that we wait and see what's the situation when the first ar9170 bits are about to enter vanilla... deal? 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
