Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Kalle, Hi Marcel, >> We have been thinking about how to get ath6kl out from staging and get >> it to a first class citizen under drivers/net/wireless. There's quite a >> lot of work to do get ath6kl cleaned up and the prospect of doing all >> that through the staging-next tree wasn't that exciting. We would be >> sending hundreds of patches and it would take a long time to cleanup the >> driver. And the disconnection from the wireless core development also >> sounded very daunting (cfg80211 API changes etc.). > > my main question is why do you still bother with this driver and not > re-write it as a mac80211 driver from scratch. It seems to be more > softmac than fullmac anyway. Or am I mistaken here? Actually ar6003, the chip ath6kl supports, is a fullmac. It can take ethernet frames, all authentication/association frames are created by the firmware and firmware manages the roaming as well. So there isn't anything mac80211 could do. > The source code of the current staging driver is 5 MB in size. That is > by far the largest staging driver. Even brcm80211 is smaller. Yeah, the driver is huge. But once the cleanup is done it will be a lot smaller. Kalle -- 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
