From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from pne-smtpout3-sn1.fre.skanova.net ([81.228.11.120]:60471 "EHLO pne-smtpout3-sn1.fre.skanova.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767AbYAWNVU (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:21:20 -0500 Received: from [10.0.0.10] (80.220.119.243) by pne-smtpout3-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.3.129) id 478149BD000F38BE for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:20:11 +0100 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] RFC: Driver for Wireless RNDIS USB devices. From: Jussi Kivilinna To: linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <20080120001342.25718.83669.stgit@fate.lan> References: <20080120001342.25718.83669.stgit@fate.lan> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:21:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1201094475.7733.1.camel@localhost> (sfid-20080123_132124_359813_3B040B12) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Any change of getting driver merged in 2.6.25? - Jussi On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 02:13 +0200, Jussi Kivilinna wrote: > Hello, > > This is second try on wireless RNDIS patchset started by Bjorge Dijkstra. Since > Bjorge has disappeared, I claim maintainership of rndis_wext and this patchset > until he returns. > > This patchset adds support for various 802.11 USB devices based on Broadcom > 4320 chip. Chip uses RNDIS to communicate with the host, so module depend > heavily on rndis_host/cdc_ether/usbnet and needs some changes on these > modules in order to work. > > Patches 1-6 are from first patchset: > 1. Fix sparse warning: returning void valued expression > 2. [cdc_ether] Hardwire CDC descriptors when missing > 3. [rndis_host] Use 1KB buffer in rndis_unbind > 4. [rndis_host] Halt device if rndis_bind fails > 5. [rndis_host] Fix rndis packet filter flags > 6. [usbnet] Use wlan device name for RNDIS wireless devices > > Of these 1, 3 and 4 are not required for this version of rndis_wext to work. > > Actual wireless part is changed from extension on rndis_host to separate > driver. Different devices are detected by device specific USB vendor/product > IDs as the way done with Windows drivers instead of detecting RNDIS media type > like in first patchset. > > New patches 7-14: > 7. [rndis_host] Split up rndis_host.c > 8. [rndis_host] export functions > 9. [usbnet] add driver_priv pointer to 'struct usbnet' > 10. [rndis_host] Add rndis_early_init function pointer to 'struct rndis_data'. > 11. [rndis_host] Add rndis_link_change function pointer to 'struct rndis_data'. > 12. Move usbnet.h and rndis_host.h to include/linux/usb > 13. [rndis_host] blacklist known wireless RNDIS devices > 14. Add new driver 'rndis_wext' for wireless RNDIS devices. > > Patches should be applied in order, series apply cleanly to 2.6.24-rc8. > > - Jussi Kivilinna > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >