Re: rtl2860 driver in mainline?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:48:54AM +0000, Luis Correia wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:03, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@leemhuis.info> wrote:
> > On 28.10.2008 01:49, Greg KH wrote:
> >>
> >> So, on my quest to suck up every out-of-tree driver and get it into the
> >> main kernel tree (drivers/staging/ to start with), I've been pointed at
> >> the rtl2860 driver.
> >
> > Does it really make sense to include a driver when a different one for
> > mainline inclusion is being actively developed? It might give some
> > developers the impression that it's worth spending time improving the
> > rtl2860/2870 drivers -- which might be wasted time in the end.
> 
> Is it just me or you are suggesting we use the Ralink supplied driver,
> with its own wireless stack, rather then work with the rt2x00 team?

No, See my other post in this thread about what I am suggesting.

> Do we really want that again (several wireless stacks)?

We already have that in the "crap" tree today (see drivers/staging/) :)

thanks,

greg k-h