Re: [Madwifi-devel] about 802.11n support

[Scott R. <sco...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 23/07/2008, at 5:30 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
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> Things would be easier if we add support for older devices to ath9k.
> If not practical, a new ath5k could start as a fork of ath9k.  It's
> better to base drivers on the code that comes from Atheros.
>

I can't see any reason for continuing both ath5k and ath9k. Surely  
both drivers won't be merged into the kernel separately as they are so  
similar. I'm pretty sure the higher up kernel people are not keen on  
having multiple drivers for similar devices. The Intel ethernet  
drivers are a good example of this. This would of course not be a  
problem if Atheros hadn't played their usual trick of bypassing the  
normal community development process with a massive code dump, but  
hey, that's just my opinion.

That being said, I can't imagine that there's much reason for working  
on net80211 any further. Stabilise net80211 + madwifi and be done with  
it. Adding 802.11n support to net80211 just gets us further away from  
ever releasing a decent version of madwifi.

--
Scott Raynel
WAND Network Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato
New Zealand