From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>,
at76c503a-develop@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: at76_usb - fourth submission attempt
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:58:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070823205851.GK2989@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184265547.29486.2.camel@dv>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:39:07PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:17 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > > The biggest change that has not been done is conversion to mac80211. I
> > > believe it's possible, but I don't expect it to happen overnight. Until
> > > then, at76_usb uses its own implementation of 802.11 protocol.
> >
> > Unfortunately, that prevents being accepted to vanilla.
> >
> > I'd suggest to convert the driver to mac80211 and submit it then;
> > otherwise people will tend to look at the code saying "NAK, it contains
> > its own home grown 802.11 stack" only and not to review the driver in
> > depth.
>
> Well, that make sense. Helpers are welcome :)
I have added this to the 'at76' branch of wireless-dev, and attempted
to directly recruit some help to get this driver ported to mac80211.
I think that is a requirement for merging upstream, but at least
being in wireless-dev and -mm will get you some visibility, testing,
feedback, etc...
Thanks!
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-23 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-12 8:16 at76_usb - fourth submission attempt Pavel Roskin
2007-07-12 10:00 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-12 18:17 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-12 18:39 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-08-23 20:58 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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