From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762266AbZAQPF3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:05:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757971AbZAQPFK (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:05:10 -0500 Received: from mk-outboundfilter-5-a-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.4]:60238 "EHLO mk-outboundfilter-5-a-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757963AbZAQPFI (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:05:08 -0500 X-Trace: 124278979/mk-outboundfilter-5.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$F2S-NILDRAM-ACCEPTED/f2s-nildram-customers/195.149.44.6/None/alistair@devzero.co.uk X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 195.149.44.6 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: alistair@devzero.co.uk X-MUA: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.29-rc2-damocles; KDE/4.1.4; x86_64; ; ) X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArcEAOSCcUnDlSwG/2dsb2JhbACBbMoThXM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,281,1231113600"; d="scan'208";a="124278979" X-IP-Direction: IN From: Alistair John Strachan To: w.landgraf@yahoo.com Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 rt2860 driver Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:04:53 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.29-rc2-damocles; KDE/4.1.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <755926.36103.qm@web112217.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <755926.36103.qm@web112217.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901171504.53299.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 17 January 2009 14:30:01 We La wrote: > 1) In the press was published that 2.6.29 would include the rt2860 WIFI > driver. However, in 2.6.29-rc2 one find nowhere this driver. rt2x00 don't > work, at least ifconfig ra0 up gives a error message. and to compile it > from source code, works with 2.6.26.X but not with 2.6.29-rc2 (plenty error > messages) What's the situation of the rt2860 driver ?? The only senseful > criterion for inclusion of a driver in the kernel is not the maturity of > the code, but the number of sellings of that hardware in the shops, and > that driver is necessary for msi wind notebooks, so it should be included > into the kernel. It's in the kernel. You need to enable CONFIG_STAGING which is Greg's option for "these drivers aren't as good quality as normal Linux drivers but we're providing them anyway for early adopters". Exactly your argument, I think. Device Drivers -> Staging drivers Exclude Staging drivers from being built -> n Ralink 2860 wireless support (NEW) Hope this helps. -- Cheers, Alistair.