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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] sysfs compat
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Hello Franz -

as a comment: Whenever I used drivers from a chip manufacturer so far I had a 
miserable experience. Basic features and most common applications usually 
work, but thats it. Drivers are usually buggy and unmaintained. Particularly 
ad-hoc mode support usually is theoretically there but practically broken. I 
know of no proprietary vendor driver that works properly.

The fact that you are usually bound to a very old version of Linux is telling. 
I only use / promote chips with decent open-source support. OpenWrt is 
awesome.

Cheers,
Elektra