cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile ipw.4 iwi.4 ral.4ural.4 src/sys/conf files src/sys/dev/ipw if_ipw.c if_ipwreg.h if_ipwvar.h pccarddevs src/sys/dev/ral if_ral.c ...

[Stijn Hoop]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:19:16PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Ian Dowse wrote:
> > In message <200504181847.j3IIlcjh018258 at repoman.freebsd.org>,
> > Damien Bergamini writes:
> > > Initial import of ipw, iwi, ral and ural drivers:
> >
> > Woohoo, finally!

Yes, great news!

> > I presume it's still necessary for people to download the firmware
> > and ipwcontrol ultility to use the driver?
> 
> Due to the firmware license, we decided that it wouldn't be appropriate in 
> the base system.  And, since you can't go anywhere with the firmware, it 
> makes sense to put the related tools in with the port.  The ports will be 
> coming soon.

Hmm... an argument for putting the tools (but not the firmware) in the
main tree would be that changes to core structures (802.11 layer) can
be included for the iwicontrol tool, instead of waiting for the port
maintainer of the tools to catch up. Or doesn't it depend on a lot of
base network code?

Anyway, I'll be using whatever version is committed of course :) Thanks
for all your hard work!

--Stijn

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