On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:10:24PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > we are reviewing possibilities of working on Bluetooth 3.0. With > Bluetooth 3.0 you essentially will switch to transmitting large data > over your 802.11 device instead of the BT device. One of the first > questions we need to address first is how we would go about > coordinating development between wireless-testing and > bluetooth-testing. First I'll note that I know squat of bluetooth so > bare with me if I'm not being 100% accurate here. From what I gather > on the mac80211 side the biggest piece will be the PAL implementation > which should translate HCI commands to respective 802.11 frames where > needed. It seems this would likely be the first thing tackled. Prior > to working on 802.11 though we realize that at some point we'll need > to synchronize the 802.11 and Bluetooth trees though so work done on > wireless-testing for a PAL is reasonable but then the > bluetooth-testing won't have the respective updates. > > Using linux-next is one possibility but using linux-next proves a pain > due to the fact that every single update on breaks updates, so the > only way to update is: > > git fetch > git reset --hard origin > > Wanted to get your feedback on what you think would be the best > approach to take for focus on development for Bluetooth 3.0 support. > Hoping there is a better solution than using linux-next. I'm sure Marcel and Johannes are way ahead of us on this. :-) I think you covered the basics, but you did leave-out the possibility of using net-next-2.6 for bleeding-edge development of bluetooth 3. Since both Marcel and I feed Dave's tree and Dave endeavours to keep the history of that tree stable then this would seem like your best bet. In any case, I was under the impression that at least the initial parts of the 802.11 AMP implementation could happen independently from any bluetooth stack changes...? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
