Re: at76_usb driver status

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> > > > > > In my quest to suck drivers into drivers/staging/ I noticed that the
> > > > > > at76_usb driver is being shipped by both Fedora and Ubuntu in their
> > > > > > kernels.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes, that's the original at76_usb driver which has it's own 802.11
> > > > > stack. Pavel Rosking was the maintainer of that driver. Based on the
> > > > > feedback in linux-wireless I then started porting the driver to use
> > > > > mac80211. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > (Maybe I should have renamed the port to something else than at76_usb
> > > > > because having two different drivers with the same name creates
> > > > > confusion.)
> > > > > 
> > > > > > So I was wondering what the status of this driver is, and if I
> > > > > > could/should add it to drivers/staging/?
> > > > > 
> > > > > The original at76_usb is working quite well, but it's unacceptable for
> > > > > the mainline because we cannot have two 802.11 stacks in kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > I understand this, but for the issue of the drivers/staging/ tree, it's
> > > > ok for us to have as many 802.11 stacks in the kernel as we can cram in
> > > > there :)
> > > 
> > > did you start working for Ubuntu now ;)
> > 
> > Heh, no, I'm just, to quote Linux, now the "Maintainer of Crap".  See
> > the lwn.net summary of the kernel summit for details :)
> 
> I was mainly referring to Kyle from OLS a year ago ;)

Doh, I forgot about that joke!

sorry, was slow this morning...

greg k-h