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

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:14 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

quoted

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

Yes, this is all from scratch.  The objective for this work is to be 
"mainlinable".

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We cleaned up a lot of stuff for the OLPC 8388 libertas driver, but
unfortunately we never were able to get the Marvell 8388 team onboard,
and so they just went off and kept working on their driver and didn't
really move the upstream libertas driver forward at all.

Libertas is a rather different beast.

Obviously; this was just an observation about the last time we got a
wireless driver from Marvell.  I expect it to work out rather
differently this time simply on the strength of your and Lennert's
track-record, but if it's really just you two guys and you don't have
buy-in from the actual hardware and software teams inside Marvell, it's
hard to see how this wouldn't just happen again.

Dan

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