Re: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [LWN.net]

From:		"John W. Linville" <linville-AT-tuxdriver.com>
To:		Pavel Roskin <proski-AT-gnu.org>
Subject:		Re: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Date:		Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:41:11 -0500
Cc:		Theodore Tso <tytso-AT-mit.edu>, netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel-AT-lists.sourceforge.net, James Ketrenos <jketreno-AT-linux.intel.com>
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:53:51PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>:
> 
> > > Very cool!  Is it likely that d80211 and iwlwifi will be pushed into
> > > mainline in time for 2.6.21?
> >
> > Hmmm...I think we need to spend a cycle or so in -mm.  2.6.22 seems
> > more likely for mainline.
> 
> I think we should take this as a goal.  Last time I checked, d80211 wasn't in
> -mm.  Perhaps it should go there.  And by the way, the latest changes from
> netdev->class_dev to netdev->dev break d80211.  Perhaps we should rebase
> wireless-dev immediately after 2.6.21-rc1, fix all compile issues and submit
> the patch to -mm.

That is basically the plan. :-)

John
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John W. Linville
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