From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from warsl404pip5.highway.telekom.at ([195.3.96.77]:27239 "EHLO email.aon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752358AbZAHO4t (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:56:49 -0500 To: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: status of at76-usb driver Message-ID: <1231426604.4966142c2f17c@webmail.aon.at> (sfid-20090108_155653_760894_32D95E4D) Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:56:44 +0100 (CET) From: Claudio Cc: "\"John W. Linville\"" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH References: <1230411118.4956956ecb911@webmail.aon.at> <87fxk8o2g0.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <20090106201517.GD3544@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Kalle Valo wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 PM, John W. Linville > 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