From: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, s.L-H@gmx.de,
Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:01:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349985702-21322-1-git-send-email-pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> (raw)
Some time ago I found an old USB wireless dongle in my drawer. I was
surprised it wasn't supported in Linux. Google gave me an old
unfinished driver created by Christoph Hellwig. Armed with some
spare time and naivity I picked up where Christoph left in 2007 and
now it's actually working pretty fine. It does not crash for me and
throughput is decent.
It's based on the FreeBSD driver, which in turn is based on the
reverse engineered Windows driver, hence a very limited feature set.
Not even HW crypto offload is supported. But at least there is a
firmware which has a suitable license:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/uath/ar5523.bin.uu
Pontus Fuchs (4):
ar5523: Add main driver file
ar5523: Add driver header file
ar5523: Add Firmware API header file
ar5523: Add Kconfig and Makefile
drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/staging/ar5523/Kconfig | 7 +
drivers/staging/ar5523/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.c | 1824 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.h | 164 ++++
drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h | 447 +++++++++
7 files changed, 2446 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.c
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.h
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h
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1.7.9.5
next reply other threads:[~2012-10-11 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-11 20:01 Pontus Fuchs [this message]
2012-10-11 20:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] ar5523: Add main driver file Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-15 20:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-10-11 20:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] ar5523: Add driver header file Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-13 5:41 ` Kalle Valo
2012-10-13 10:14 ` Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-13 15:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-21 19:58 ` Kalle Valo
2012-10-11 20:01 ` [PATCH 3/4] ar5523: Add Firmware API " Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-11 20:01 ` [PATCH 4/4] ar5523: Add Kconfig and Makefile Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-11 20:31 ` [PATCH 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset Greg KH
2012-10-12 6:52 ` Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-12 7:28 ` Mohammed Shafi
2012-10-12 8:36 ` Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-12 8:23 ` Julian Calaby
2012-10-12 8:33 ` Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-12 11:45 ` Chadd, Adrian
2012-10-30 17:08 ` Adrian Chadd
2012-11-01 17:41 ` Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-12 7:11 ` Kalle Valo
2012-10-12 14:33 ` John W. Linville
2012-10-13 5:38 ` Kalle Valo
2012-10-13 10:25 ` Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-21 16:35 ` Kalle Valo
2012-10-13 15:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-13 15:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-22 22:43 ` Greg KH
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