Re: at76_usb - fourth submission attempt

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:39:07PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:17 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:

> > > The biggest change that has not been done is conversion to mac80211.  I
> > > believe it's possible, but I don't expect it to happen overnight.  Until
> > > then, at76_usb uses its own implementation of 802.11 protocol.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, that prevents being accepted to vanilla.
> > 
> > I'd suggest to convert the driver to mac80211 and submit it then;
> > otherwise people will tend to look at the code saying "NAK, it contains
> > its own home grown 802.11 stack" only and not to review the driver in
> > depth.
> 
> Well, that make sense.  Helpers are welcome :)

I have added this to the 'at76' branch of wireless-dev, and attempted
to directly recruit some help to get this driver ported to mac80211.
I think that is a requirement for merging upstream, but at least
being in wireless-dev and -mm will get you some visibility, testing,
feedback, etc...

Thanks!

John
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John W. Linville
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