Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 21:13 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2012 20:55:15 Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 13:44 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:42:52PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> > > > If we are not able to drop the 2x00 drivers, are anyone still
> > > > interested in working on them to fix the firmware loading?
> > > 
> > > Anyone out there looking for a project?  A way to "break-in" to the
> > > public Linux community without the risk of breaking anything too
> > > important? :-)
> > > 
> > > If someone wants to be the ipw2x00 maintainer, all they need to do
> > > is start sending some non-broken patches...
> > 
> > I'd be willing to donate an ipw2200 to somebody who steps up to maintain
> > the driver.  I'll even consider paying postage.  Note that you'll need
> > to have a machine with a MiniPCI slot, or a desktop machine with PCI and
> > a PCI->MiniPCI adapter card.
> 
> I can also send a mini-pci ipw2200-based board to anyone interested. Hint: 
> having two cards is also convenient.

I'll raise you a 2915 (which is the 802.11a capable part that also uses
the ipw2200 driver) if the person who steps up is really motivated :)

Dan