From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: We La <w.landgraf@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 rt2860 driver
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:48:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090121064842.GA10184@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <755926.36103.qm@web112217.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 06:30:01AM -0800, 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 is there, and I have gotten reports of it working properly. What
problems have you had with it?
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-21 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-17 14:30 2.6.29-rc2 rt2860 driver We La
2009-01-17 15:04 ` Alistair John Strachan
2009-01-17 18:08 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-21 6:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
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