From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:37630 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750985AbZCVJkJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:40:09 -0400 Received: by sipsolutions.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LlKA1-00078c-08 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:40:05 +0100 Subject: [RFC] staging wireless crap: tell people not to work on it From: Johannes Berg To: linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:40:03 +0100 Message-Id: <1237714803.5100.770.camel@johannes.local> (sfid-20090322_104019_209592_D82B3C2D) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Any objections from anyone on this? We've had somebody clean out otus because he thought it was a good idea... johannes --- drivers/staging/at76_usb/TODO | 4 ++-- drivers/staging/otus/TODO | 7 +++---- drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO | 4 ++-- drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO | 9 ++++++++- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README | 4 +++- 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/staging/at76_usb/TODO 2009-03-22 10:31:37.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/staging/at76_usb/TODO 2009-03-22 10:31:37.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -rewrite the driver to use the proper in-kernel wireless stack -instead of using its own. +Work on at76c50x-usb instead, possibly using +this driver as a reference. --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/staging/otus/TODO 2009-03-22 10:31:36.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/staging/otus/TODO 2009-03-22 10:31:37.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ TODO: - - checkpatch.pl cleanups - - sparse cleanups - - port to in-kernel 80211 stack - - proper network developer maintainer + Any functionality in this driver should be integrated + into the ar9170 driver that is under development on the + linux-wireless mailing list. Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman and Luis Rodriguez and the --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO 2009-03-22 10:31:43.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO 2009-03-22 10:34:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can -be found at the rt2860.sf.net site. +be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site. But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ things that need to be done to get it in TODO: - checkpatch.pl clean - sparse clean - - port to in-kernel 80211 stack + - port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure - remove reading from /etc/ config files - review by the wireless developer community --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO 2009-03-22 10:31:57.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO 2009-03-22 10:34:04.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,14 @@ +I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would +really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2870 driver that can +be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site. + +But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of +things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: + TODO: - checkpatch.pl clean - sparse clean - - port to in-kernel 80211 stack + - port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure - remove reading from /etc/ config files - review by the wireless developer community --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README 2009-03-22 10:34:25.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README 2009-03-22 10:34:32.000000000 +0100 @@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ TODO: - Lindent cleanups - move to use the in-kernel wireless stack -Please send all patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman +Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg +Kroah-Hartman and don't bother the upstream wireless +kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it.