Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008

"Dan Williams" [off-list ref] writes:

Some of the issues with the current Marvell 83xx GPL drivers that have
gotten out are (a) code style, (b) lots of commented out stuff that's
never used, (c) OS abstraction that's unnecessary on Linux, (d) doesn't
use mac80211, and (e) uses private ioctls.  

I think you just listed exactly the problems with all vendor WLAN
drivers. 

I think Intel is the only expection here. Is there anyone else?

So hopefully you're writing a new 83xx driver from scratch :)

And it always seems that this is the only viable way to solve it :)

(dropping lkml and netdev from CC)

-- 
Kalle Valo