On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:46:11AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > What this provides for is a wonderful leverage for hardware > > vendors. If they provide GPL'ed code for their core hardware > > drivers that link against the Linux 802.11 layer, at one fell > > swoop they also get Windows 7 and Mac OS X drivers for free! > > Yes, indeed ! That would be ideal indeed, but we'd need then an 802.11 > stack which is also permissive licensed and then make APIs for that > 802.11 stack to match mac80211's or cfg80211's or bridges between > then. Because ultimately you will still need some 802.11 stack for > some OSes that don't have one. I wonder how much this is true. Yes, at the moment we still need to worry about those OS's that don't have one; but how much longer will hardware vendors need to support Windows XP? If Linux, Windows 7, and Mac OS X all have an 802.11 stack, what other OS's do the hardware vendors need to support? - Ted -- 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
