From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivo van Doorn Subject: Re: Please pull 'rt2x00' branch of wireless-2.6 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:31:19 +0200 Message-ID: <200709192031.19934.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <20070918213202.GJ4940@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org, jeff-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "John W. Linville" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070918213202.GJ4940-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, > This patch adds the rt2x00 drivers for Ralink wireless hardware. > This collection of drivers has seen lots of action in Fedora (both > F7 and rawhide) and many people are using them with good results > (although some problems do remain). > > Ivo in particular has been very helpful in responding to bug reports > for these drivers, including bugs reported at kernel.org and in > distro bugzillas. I extend my thanks to him for both his past and > future support of these drivers. I'm sure he and the rest of the > rt2x00 team will continue to support the community and their userbase. > > Ivo and his team may feel I am jumping the gun a bit -- they have > a few more random bugs they wanted to squash before going upstream. > But since they are bugs, any fixes should still be able to be applied > in the -rc phase of 2.6.24. In the meantime, I definitely think it > would be better to get this code into mainline rather than keeping > it out of stream. With 2.6.23 not yet released, I assume we still have a few months to get rt2x00 shaped up to be really ready for 2.6.24? Because I am indeed not really happy with this early merge, but I'll do my best to resolve the last outstanding bugs as soon as possible. Ivo