[lwlan-devel] mainline kernel integration?

[Solomon Peachy]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:23:13PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I was wondering if you guys are working with the upstream wireless 
> developers to get the drivers which are not present in the mainline kernel?
> Like prism2_usb etc.?

The basic problem is that in order to make linux-wlan-ng (or even just 
prism2_usb) suitable for kernel inclusion, so much work is involved 
that it would actually be less work to write a new driver from 
scratch (or add prism2_usb support to the in-kernel hostap/prism2 
driver)

The same reason is why there's no WPA support in linux-wlan-ng.

I'd love to see prism2_usb support go into the mainline kernel, but it's 
not something I personally have the time to work on.  If someone else 
wants to take up the torch, I'll provide what assistance I can.

 - Solomon
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