Re: future of prism2_usb (aka wlan-ng) in staging tree

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 14:46 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:11:23PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > And all of which were nominated by someone (possibly me) to be shuffled
> > out of the tree due to lack of users and unknown functional status...
> 
> Heh, fair enough!
> 
> > I don't want to discourage anyone from working on something that
> > scratches their itch, especially if you have working hardware and
> > some users.  OTOH, I'd rather not add a long term support burden to
> > the kernel if nobody is going to use it...?
> 
> On an average month the linux-wlan-ng repository I still host gets 3-4K 
> non-spider hits for the USB firmware files, so in this particular case 
> there are still users out there.
> 
> At this point it's a more modern driver than the ones already in the 
> kernel, and I'm willing to maintain it if there's a point to doing so.

What's the delta in device support between prism2_usb and the hostap
driver's USB subdriver?  Is there any overlap?

Dan