From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, dsd@gentoo.org,
kune@deine-taler.de
Subject: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919181005.GB5483@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
Jeff & Dave,
This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211),
a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very
robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open
bugzillas for it. Either the driver works well, or no one as using
it...given the common availability of the hardware, I have to presume
the former. :-)
This driver is mostly a port of zd1211rw to the mac80211
infrastructure. In fact, most zd1211rw patches have been mirrored
directly to this driver for some time. I considered merely updating
the existing driver with this code, but I think it is more prudent to
include this as a separate driver just to avoid confusion. There is
some symbol clash between the two drivers, so I add a Kconfig hack
to ensure that only one or the other is built-in or that this one is
built as a module.
The maintainers have identified some (IMHO minor) issues with the
mac80211 port of this driver. Some of them are summarized here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/mac80211Issues
Still, I think we would be better-off having this driver upstream.
Thanks,
John
---
Patch is available here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/0001-z1211-add-mac80211-based-driver-for-ZD1211-hardwa.patch
---
The following changes since commit 0d4cbb5e7f60b2f1a4d8b7f6ea4cc264262c7a01:
Linus Torvalds (1):
Linux 2.6.23-rc6
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git z1211
Daniel Drake (1):
z1211: add mac80211-based driver for ZD1211 hardware
MAINTAINERS | 10 +
drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/Kconfig | 18 +
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/Makefile | 10 +
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_chip.c | 1619 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_chip.h | 921 ++++++++++++++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_def.h | 57 +
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_ieee80211.c | 100 ++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_ieee80211.h | 75 ++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_mac.c | 949 ++++++++++++++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_mac.h | 227 ++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf.c | 178 +++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf.h | 108 ++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf_al2230.c | 439 ++++++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf_al7230b.c | 492 +++++++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf_rf2959.c | 279 +++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf_uw2453.c | 534 +++++++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_usb.c | 1528 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_usb.h | 263 +++++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_util.c | 82 ++
drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_util.h | 29 +
22 files changed, 7920 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_chip.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_chip.h
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_def.h
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_ieee80211.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_ieee80211.h
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_mac.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_mac.h
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf.h
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf_al2230.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf_al7230b.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf_rf2959.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_rf_uw2453.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_usb.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_usb.h
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_util.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/z1211/zd_util.h
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 18:10 John W. Linville [this message]
2007-09-19 18:59 ` Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6 David Miller
2007-09-19 19:23 ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-19 19:56 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 20:12 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 22:08 ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-19 22:14 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 22:27 ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-19 22:32 ` David Miller
2007-09-20 13:47 ` John W. Linville
2007-09-20 14:28 ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-20 16:37 ` Larry Finger
2007-09-20 16:40 ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-22 9:48 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-09-22 12:11 ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-22 14:42 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-09-22 14:47 ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-19 22:12 ` Daniel Drake
2007-09-20 13:28 ` John W. Linville
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