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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kaszak@gmail.com, lcostantino@gmail.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: w35und wifi driver for linux-staging
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:27:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081020172750.GA9587@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224521874.29822.11.camel@dhcp-100-3-195.bos.redhat.com>

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:57:54PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 14:19 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:36:56 +0200
> > Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > This is driver for w35und usb wifi -- also in kohjinsha
> > > subnotebook. It should work well enough to associate and ping, but it
> > > obviously needs to be rewritten two more times...
> > > 
> > > OTOH worst horrors (like embedded wifi stack) should have been fixed
> > > already...
> > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/winbond/Kconfig
> > > b/drivers/net/wireless/winbond/Kconfig new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..94499d3
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/winbond/Kconfig
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> > > +config W35UND
> > > +	tristate "Winbond driver"
> > > +	depends on MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
> > > && !4KSTACKS
> > 
> > why this !4KSTACKS? At minimum that should be in the "to fix" list ;)
> 
> Yeah seriously, the driver isn't going anywhere unless it works with 4k
> stacks...

Well, it's going into the staging tree, where it can now be fixed up :)

And yes, I'll go add that to the TODO list for this driver, thanks.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-20 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01 12:36 w35und wifi driver for linux-staging Pavel Machek
2008-10-01 12:36 ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-01 11:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-01 18:53   ` Greg KH
2008-10-01 12:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-02 19:12   ` Dan Williams
2008-11-19 11:28   ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-01 19:39 ` patch staging-add-w35und-wifi-driver.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
2008-10-01 23:05   ` Ian Schram
2008-10-01 23:10     ` Greg KH
2008-11-24  8:49     ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-02  9:57   ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-18 21:19 ` w35und wifi driver for linux-staging Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-20 16:57   ` Dan Williams
2008-10-20 17:27     ` Greg KH [this message]

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