Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:28:45 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: w35und: add softmac interface |
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:22:41AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > This adds softmac interface to w35und driver... so it becomes monster > > > driver with _two_ interfaces. > > > > > > If you initialize hardmac interface, then softmac starts to > > > works... it associates to AP, and can even ping. > > > > > > (Or at least I hope so... it was somewhat too easy.) > > > > OK, I'm late to the party...what is this stuff going into > > drivers/net/wireless? > > Actually you are about month early to the party ;-). We are trying to > clean up winbond usb wireless driver, so that it can think about > inclusion in kernel. > > http://code.google.com/p/winbondport/ > > Unfortunately, original driver carries its own 802.11 stack with it; > that needs to be stripped down. (And then code needs to be rewritten > due to horrible coding style).
I see...OK.
Did you get any legal advice regarding whether or not MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") was sufficient to proclaim the driver as covered by the GPL?
John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com
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