Re: [PATCH 11/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - OTUS 802.11n USB WIRELESS DRIVER

Re: [PATCH 11/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - OTUS 802.11n USB WIRELESS DRIVER

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:49:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 06eed7b..4494736 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -5507,6 +5507,11 @@ M:	Ossama Othman <ossama.othman@intel.com>
>  S:	Odd Fixes
>  F:	drivers/staging/memrar/
>  
> +STAGING - OTUS 802.11n USB WIRELESS DRIVER
> +M:	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
> +S:	Odd Fixes
> +F:	drivers/staging/otus/
> +
>  STARFIRE/DURALAN NETWORK DRIVER
>  M:	Ion Badulescu <ionut@badula.org>
>  S:	Odd Fixes

Nack, this driver is unmaintained and its only purpose is as a
source of documentation for developers working on ar9170 and carl9170.
Once carl9170 gets 11n support and merged upstream then this driver
can be removed.

  Luis

[PATCH] drivers/staging/otus/TODO: Don't bother, for documentation purposes only

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:02 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> this driver is unmaintained and its only purpose is as a
> source of documentation for developers working on ar9170 and carl9170.
> Once carl9170 gets 11n support and merged upstream then this driver
> can be removed.

Then the TODO file should be updated.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 drivers/staging/otus/TODO |   16 ++++------------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO b/drivers/staging/otus/TODO
index 4caf026..6fea974 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/otus/TODO
@@ -2,15 +2,7 @@ I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
 really have people help them out on the "clean" ar9170 driver that can
 be found at the linux-wireless developer site.
 
-But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
-things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
-
-TODO:
-	- checkpatch.pl cleanups
-	- sparse cleanups
-	- port to in-kernel 80211 stack
-	- review by the wireless developer community
-
-Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and
-Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> and the
-otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org mailing list.
+This driver is unmaintained and its only purpose is as a
+source of documentation for developers working on ar9170 and carl9170.
+Once carl9170 gets 11n support and merged upstream then this driver
+can be removed.

Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/otus/TODO: Don't bother, for documentation purposes only

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:11:35PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:02 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > this driver is unmaintained and its only purpose is as a
> > source of documentation for developers working on ar9170 and carl9170.
> > Once carl9170 gets 11n support and merged upstream then this driver
> > can be removed.
> 
> Then the TODO file should be updated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Sure, thanks.