On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:28:32PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Well, I do not care for drivers ignoring SoftMAC and duplicating
> the work. The question is: Why don't these drivers use SoftMAC?
> (Yeah, because it is incomplete, is the answer. :D I am talking
> about future.)
For me, the answer would have been because I had no idea about that
being worked on somewhere else. Now the answer would be more likely
"because it is not in netdev-2.6 tree with rest of ieee80211
development".
> What is so hard about a driver including ieee80211.h _and_
> ieee80211softmac.h, if it requires Software MAC? And what
> exactly is duplicated work here? SoftMAC does _not_ duplicate;
> it extends.
That is not hard as long as this work is easily available.
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