From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761416AbYBFAP0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:15:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760091AbYBFAPP (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:15:15 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:54825 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759971AbYBFAPN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:15:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:15:12 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Linus Torvalds cc: Marcel Holtmann , David Sterba , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Martel , stephen@symmetric.co.nz Subject: Re: [PATCH][v4] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20080201153707.GA24859@ds.suse.cz> <1202255212.15090.180.camel@violet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And especially with wireless, I think the impact for any future changes > are about the wireless infrastructure, not PCMCIA. There's little reason > to believe that we'll ever make any big PCMCIA overhauls exctly because > PCMCIA is so dead. So I'd happily merge it, but I would be even happier > if I got ack's from the wireless people or if it was simply merged that > way too. Unfortunately the device has quite confusing name (and the driver of course follows). It has 'wireless' in its name, but it has literally nothing to do with "wireless" networking, as long as 802.11 is involved. It is in fact a PCMCIA card, that acts as a GPRS/EDGE/UMTS modem. So its This has been already discussed, please see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0711.3/2198.html Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs