Re: [ath5k-devel] Atheros kernel support, joining the company

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To: <ath5k-devel@...>, Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@...>
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 10:18 pm

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Fellow ath5k hackers,

Good news. I write to you to inform you that I have decided to join
Atheros as a full time employee, as a Software Engineer, to help them
with their goals and mission to get every device of Atheros supported
upstream in the Linux kernel. I realize there are a lot of challenges
ahead but I am well aware of the how the community works and the
benefits of working with it and am confident we will find ways to
strengthen the relationship between Atheros and the community. I also
realize there are a lot of pending questions and perhaps even more now.
Please rest assured we are doing what we can to work together as soon as
possible.

I will keep maintaining compat-wireless and prism54 but I didn't get to
finish the Marvell TopDog driver port from net80211 to mac80211. Hope
someone is willing to take that over as I will be pretty busy with other
work now.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/mrvl_cb82.git

I do plan on keeping on pushing the Central Regulatory Domain Agent work
I had started. The db schema and a port of ar5k regulatory information
to it can now be found here:

http://winlab.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/crda/

In the coming weeks I hope to finish the integration now that a db is
available and hope to also update the db with more up to date values.

Luis

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To: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@...>
Cc: <ath5k-devel@...>, Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@...>
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 1:07 pm

Spiffing. Good Luck.

Matthew Bell

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To: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@...>
Cc: <ath5k-devel@...>, Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@...>
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 12:24 pm

Congratz !

I'm really looking forward to get some answers we had for a long time
now, it'll save much time from rev. engineering. I hope now you are
there you can make this happen and open a communication channel

Have you checked this one out ?
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_databases.htm

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To: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@...>
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Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 8:46 am

This sounds like excellent news! I am hopeful that it signifies a
new stance on fully open source drivers for Atheros.

Best of luck at your new position!

John
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To: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@...>
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Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:25 pm

It's terrific news! Congratulations, Luis!!!

It's great for the kernel and for free software in general. A major

I hope your example will encourage new developers, and your projects

I think Atheros should really be interested in getting it right.
After all, they have to certify their products for different markets.
FCC regulations should not be used to keep the drivers closed. The
cat is out of the bag - it's time to teach it some rules, not to chase
it around the house :-)

I hope Atheros will set a good example for other hardware vendors.
Good luck at your new job!

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