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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	jslaby@suse.cz, stephen@symmetric.co.nz,
	Ben Martel <benm@symmetric.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:20:55 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711301518320.12807@jikos.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47500D95.4020009@garzik.org>

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > Driver lives in drivers/char/pcmcia directory, it's a serial driver.  
> > I'm not sure if this is the right place, since it's a networking 
> > driver too and therefore should be in drivers/net/pcmcia.
> If the -main- purpose of the hardware is wireless, it should go in via 
> John Linville, wireless maintainer...

Well, it is

- 4G UMTS PPP networking hardware
- PCMCIA
- which presents itself as a serial character device (i.e. looks like 
  usual modem to userspace, accepts AT commands, etc)

So my opinion is that it's very far away from what actually is in 
drivers/net/wireless. It's not 802.x network card in any sense.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-30 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-30 12:55 [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card David Sterba
2007-11-30 13:03 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-04 17:33   ` David Sterba
2007-12-07  0:28     ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-11-30 13:11 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-11-30 13:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-30 14:20   ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2007-12-01 10:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-12-04 17:23   ` David Sterba
2007-12-12 15:08 ` [PATCH V2] " David Sterba
2007-12-17 10:57   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-12-17 11:22     ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-17 12:58       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-12-17 20:44         ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30 15:20 [PATCH] " Michael Robb
2007-11-30 15:40 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-30 23:49 Michael Robb

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