Re: status of at76-usb driver

[Claudio <der.claudio@aon.at>]

Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 03:26:55PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>
>>> Also I\'m going to rename the mac80211 port to something else for just
>>> to avoid the confusion with the original driver. Last thing I want to
>>> see is having two in-tree drivers with identical names.
>>
>> OK, I still have patches to recreate the original port of at76_usb
>> to mac80211 and another to keep-up with a later mac80211 API change
>> on the at76 branch of wireless-testing.  I had intended to send them
>> to Greg now that the mac80211 API change has made it upstream.
>
> I have to disagree here. It\'s better not to change at76_usb in staging
> to avoid any breakage. Like I said, I will submit the mac80211 port
> with a new name (most probably at76c50x-usb) as soon as I get it
> stable enough. It\'s good idea to have a working driver in staging tree
> until the mac80211 has been verified to be working.

I think so too.

>> Since you mentioned a) that you are working on the port again and b)
>> you are going to rename the driver for mac80211, should I just drop
>> my at76 branch of wireless testing for good?
>
> Please do, because I will submit at7650x-usb patches from scratch. But
> don\'t remove at76 branch from the legacy tree, it\'s useful for me:

I am looking forward for testing your new mac80211 version. Please tell
me where the development happens, so that I can contribute to it.

Regarding Ubuntu: They are still shipping an ancient version (0.14beta1!).
Sorry for considering blaming you for the problems. The current version
of the staging-tree/directory(?) works well.

Claudio