Re: State of the Union: Wireless

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 04:32:55 EST


Hi!

> > Like the OSS/Alsa or XFree3.x/XFree4.x situations.
>
> And OSS/ALSA is an example why this is not a good thing:
> - OSS in the kernel is unmaintained
> - people forced to use OSS drivers can't use applications only
> supporting ALSA

Well, it is different. Current ieee80211 stack is going to be
maintained by Intel -- because they need it for their hw.
And it will be very easy to find maintainer for the new stack...

So we already have two-stack situation here.

--
Thanks, Sharp!
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