Re: [Madwifi-devel] Kernel patches.
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From: Santiago G. M. <ma...@ma...> - 2004-04-11 13:02:34
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> Nowhere interesting. There is a lot of useful work in madwifi. All of it > except the HAL can be included in the kernel sources w/o an issue. But I > have no expectation that this will happen. Instead I expect someone will > come along and redo everything because they "know how to do it right" (now > that they've looked at the madwifi code). Sam, I have never read from you why the HAL is a binary module, but if all I have read (that it was due to fcc regulations) is true, wouldn't it be posible to do something like what was done with ISDN hisax cards? These cards are also able to produce signals out of the ISDN specs if the driver tells them to do it, however, the official driver is conforming to this regulations and it is signed by the author, thus, if you use this driver without modifications you are conforming the regulations, but if you modify it you may be out of them. I think this scheme is very interesting, you can read more about it in the linux source code at Documentation/isdn/HiSax.cert I think it would be great to have something similar for madwifi, and I'd be willing to help in what is needed, I suppose other people would also be willing to help on this. I'd like to know your opinion, maybe all that I heard about the fcc regulations is false and then this is nonsense anyway :-? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net |