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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel•org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk•ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver•com,
	linux-wireless@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the ttydev tree
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:45:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080701164545.GD32598@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080701164220.18bba393@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:42:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > When we discussed the removal of the driver we weren't able to find any 
> > realistic chance that people both have this hardware and this kind of 
> > wireless network.
> > 
> > What users do you know about?
> 
> The modems worked both with base stations but they also support working
> as an adhoc star mode network and yes - people still use them for that in
> interesting places where 802.11 doesn't work nicely. And I got bug
> reports.. You can still plug em into a PC today and build ad-hoc star
> networks including funky stuff like dual modem full dupex.
> 
> Of course if you'd bothered to discuss it anywhere I can find or read you
> might have found that out earlier.

It was discussed on linux-wireless which seems to be the appropriate 
place for a driver under drivers/net/wireless/

If you consider yourself the maintainer of this driver, can you dump 
the non-working URL from the MAINTAINERS entry (whose removal was my 
original patch) and add yourself instead?

> Alan

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01 14:07 linux-next: manual merge of the ttydev tree Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 14:43   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-01 15:42     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 16:45       ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-11  6:26 Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-11 10:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-11 14:46   ` Dan Williams
2008-09-19  2:57 Stephen Rothwell
2008-09-19  2:53 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-25  8:33 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-25  8:24 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-22  5:51 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-21  8:03 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-21 10:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-21 12:14   ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-19  7:43 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-19 19:57 ` Greg KH
2008-08-18  6:08 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-14  5:50 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-12  6:58 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-12 20:42 ` Greg KH
2008-08-12  6:55 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-23  6:47 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-22  6:37 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-22 10:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-21  7:20 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-18  8:48 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-18  8:41 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-18  8:28 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-18  8:23 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-18  8:20 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-18  8:49 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-18 10:49   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-18 10:55     ` David Miller
2008-07-18 11:00       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-04  9:11 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-04 15:41 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 14:12 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 14:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 14:09 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 14:04 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 13:56 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 13:54 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 13:43 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 12:43 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 14:09 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 15:07   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-01 15:29     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-02  9:01       ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-02  9:17         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-02  9:50           ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-02  9:43             ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 12:35 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 11:57 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 11:59 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-07-01 15:25   ` Greg KH
2008-07-01 11:44 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 11:37 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 11:33 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-12 18:59 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-07-12 20:29   ` Alan Cox
2008-07-13  1:20   ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 11:23 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 11:17 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 11:10 Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-01 11:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 16:18   ` David Brownell
2008-07-01 16:27     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-01 10:59 Stephen Rothwell

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