On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:32 +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> orinoco now depends on cfg80211. If compat-wireless was installed it >> will install its own version of cfg80211 and orinoco will not work any >> more because it wants to use the version shipped with the kernel. >> >> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx> > > If orinoco is in compat-wireless and hostap is not, I'm concerned that > users with hostap would end up with a less capable orinoco driver. Curious, is anyone planning on porting hostap to cfg80211? Our todo list for conversion lists it as having a partial conversion: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/todo-list/cfg80211-conversion Who is doing such conversion? I don't see anything on wireless-testing for this. > I'm going to make a patch that would disable support for Prism chipset > in Orinoco by default. It should have been done long ago, but I never > had a chance, and patches proposed by others had quality issues. Great. Luis -- 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
