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From: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-2.6 0/12] Host AP update
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:15:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041114051533.GA14810@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41907A06.2040702@pobox.com>

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:04:22AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Andrew Morton's "-mm" kernels are essentially a staging area for pushing 
> changes to the upstream kernel.  I pulled the latest wireless-2.6 tree 
> (includes your latest patches #1 - #9) into my netdev-2.6 queue. 
> netdev-2.6, in turn, is automatically pulled by Andrew, into his -mm 
> tree.  It will get wider review and testing here.

Thanks! I'll send couple of more patches to update the driver to Linux
2.6.10-rc1.

> A key goal I have for HostAP is that portions of HostAP code should be 
> bundled into a generic "lib80211" kernel module, for use by various 
> low-level and "softmac" 802.11 device drivers.

Agreed.

> The Intel Centrino driver folks are already using HostAP in this 
> capacity, and I _think_ their changes were fairly minimal and cosmetic. 
>    If the changes are indeed minimal, I think it's better to merge 
> those changes before sending HostAP stuff upstream.

I haven't went through all the changes in Intel driver, but at least
IEEE 802.11g support is going to require quite a bit more work and IEEE
802.11a and Atheros-like hardware even more.

> To emphasize that the upstream-bound HostAP code is a generic library 
> (well, parts of it), I would prefer that the kernel module name, and API 
> prefixes, use some name other than 'hostap_'.  'wifi_' or 'ieee80211_' 
> or whatever, I don't care.  Just something "more generic".
> 
> I would rather perform mass renaming of functions and files before 
> merging upstream.

I can start cleaning up some of the functions and renaming them in the
code. However, I still want to finalize couple of things in my
employment agreement before starting doing more "non-Host AP" things.
I would thus prefer to be able to get current Host AP driver merged
upstream before doing full merge with other drivers (I would add at
least net80211/madwifi to the list with Intel drivers). This would allow
me to maintain stable version of Host AP driver without having to do too
much work with an external CVS repository and start working on
wireless-2.6 for the generic library and merging.

> IMHO the bksend stuff is useless.  I prefer "plain ole patches", like 
> the ones you sent in emails '1/12' through '12/12' in this thread.

OK.

> WRT the patches you sent, as I mentioned, #1 - #9 were applied.  Please 
> update #10 and #11 per comments, and then resend #10 - #12.

I have updated #10 and #11 and added couple of more patches (13..16) to
match with the Linux 2.6.10-rc1 pull into wireless-2.6. I'll re-send
10..12 and send 13..16.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-14  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-08  7:01 [PATCH wireless-2.6 0/12] Host AP update Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:10 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 1/12] Host AP: Disable EAPOL TX/RX debug messages Jouni Malinen
2004-11-09  7:40   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-08  7:11 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 2/12] Host AP: Fix interface packet counters Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:12 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 3/12] Host AP: Ignore (Re)AssocResp messages silently Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:12 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 4/12] Host AP: Remove ioctl debug messages Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:13 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 5/12] Host AP: Fix hw address changing for wifi# interface Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:13 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 6/12] Host AP: Prevent STAs from associating using AP address Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:14 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 7/12] Host AP: Fix compilation with PRISM2_NO_STATION_MODES defined Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:14 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 8/12] Host AP: Do not bridge packets to unauthorized ports Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:15 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 9/12] Host AP: Fix card enabling after firmware download Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:16 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 10/12] Host AP: Use void * instead of unsigned long with {read,write}{b,w} Jouni Malinen
2004-11-09  7:29   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-14  5:18     ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 10/16] Host AP: Use void __iomem * " Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14 23:49       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-08  7:17 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 11/12] Host AP: Fix PRISM2_IO_DEBUG Jouni Malinen
2004-11-09  7:29   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-14  5:20     ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 11/16] " Jouni Malinen
2004-11-08  7:17 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 12/12] Host AP: Fix netif_carrier_off() in non-client modes Jouni Malinen
2004-11-09  8:04 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 0/12] Host AP update Jeff Garzik
2004-11-09  9:09   ` Michael Renzmann
2004-11-09 15:26     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-09 21:32       ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2004-11-14  5:15   ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2004-11-14  5:21 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 12/16] Host AP: Fix netif_carrier_off() in non-client modes Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14  5:22 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 13/16] Host AP: pci_register_driver() return value changes Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14  5:23 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 14/16] Host AP: Updated to use Linux wireless extensions v17 Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14  5:24 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 15/16] Host AP: Replaced direct dev->priv references with netdev_priv(dev) Jouni Malinen
2004-11-14  5:25 ` [PATCH wireless-2.6 16/16] Host AP: Replaced MODULE_PARM with module_param* Jouni Malinen

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