Re: Planned updates for the wlan support of DragonFly

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:11:25PM +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> My questions at the moment are
>  - is someone working on this part right now?
>  - what about the locking of the 802_11 layer?

I have the current 802.11 layer in my tree together with the ral(4)
driver. I also wanted to look at ath(4) after Monday.

> I think I could do the job in this particular order:
> 
>   1. bring 802_11 uptodate
>   2. update the existing drivers (wi and so on)

The problem here is that (1) and (2) have to be done together.

Locking is a big problem, I still have to fully investigate the use in
802.11.

Joerg