From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070919.115903.75429061.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070919181005.GB5483@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeff-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, dsd-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, kune-hUSrv6EASfkEnNRfnnE9gw@public.gmane.org To: linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070919181005.GB5483-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: "John W. Linville" Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400 > This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211), > a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very > robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open > bugzillas for it. Either the driver works well, or no one as using > it...given the common availability of the hardware, I have to presume > the former. :-) > > This driver is mostly a port of zd1211rw to the mac80211 > infrastructure. In fact, most zd1211rw patches have been mirrored > directly to this driver for some time. I considered merely updating > the existing driver with this code, but I think it is more prudent to > include this as a separate driver just to avoid confusion. There is > some symbol clash between the two drivers, so I add a Kconfig hack > to ensure that only one or the other is built-in or that this one is > built as a module. > > The maintainers have identified some (IMHO minor) issues with the > mac80211 port of this driver. Some of them are summarized here: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/mac80211Issues > > Still, I think we would be better-off having this driver upstream. Agreed, merged into net-2.6.24, thanks John.