Re: MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel

[Etna <etna@openmailbox.org>]

This is sorely needed given the miserable state of wifi drivers in the 
Linux kernel.

Kernel maintainers, can this be pushed to mainline? It's not a vendor 
driver after all, and it uses nl80211 instead of WEXT.


Regards,
Etna
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> On 26/02/15 22:40, Jakub Kiciński wrote:
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>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:56:46 +0100, poma wrote:
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>>> On 06.02.2015 18:29, Jakub Kiciński wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello everyone! I put together a mac80211 driver for Mediatek 
>>>> MT7601U. It's partially based on Felix's mt76, but I'm not sure if 
>>>> it will make sense to merge the two together. MT7601U is a pretty 
>>>> old 1x1 bgn chip for USB dongles and mt76 now only supports the 
>>>> latest and greatest ac APs. I'm testing STA functionality right now 
>>>> and it seems to be working ok. The code is very much a work in 
>>>> progress but if anyone is interested you can get it here: 
>>>> https://github.com/kuba-moo/mt7601uCheers, kuba -- To unsubscribe 
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>>> How many mt7601u module editions exists there? :) - vendor's - 
>>> vendor's patched (how many forms of the same) - your reinvented - 
>>> the one on which pán Gruszka allegedly works? - any more?
>>
>> I assume you mean to ask how many different drivers are there. There 
>> is the vendor 3.0.0.4 STA driver which only has client functionality. 
>> Many patched versions of this driver exist on GitHub. There is also 
>> an older version of vendor driver which can work as an AP. My 
>> mac80211-based driver is the only non-vendor version I'm aware of.
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