From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [announce] new rt2800 drivers for Ralink wireless & project tree Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:30:13 +0100 Message-ID: <200911061930.13069.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200911031951.05235.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20091106074643.GA5562@ucw.cz> <200911061858.56816.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pavel Machek , Ingo Molnar , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Randy Dunlap , Luis Correia , "John W. Linville" , Johannes Berg , Jarek Poplawski , Pekka Enberg , David Miller To: Ivo van Doorn Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200911061858.56816.IvDoorn-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Friday 06 November 2009 18:58:56 Ivo van Doorn wrote: > drivers/net/staging/rt28{6,7}0 was developed by Ralink and I acked The original vendor drivers were: - rt2860 - rt2870 - rt3070 - rt3090 Each weighting ~100 KLOC. The current staging drivers (rt2860 w/ RT3090 support and rt2870 w/ RT3070 support) are the result of my work on getting staging drivers under control (+ trying some new strategies of dealing with ugly code) and weight ~75 KLOC _together_ (they share the wireless stack code). > the merged for those drivers after the asurance that it was only merged > to please the users so developers could focus on the rt2x00 version of > the driver. Could somebody please explain me (in the public or in the private) what is the reason behind whole affair about staging drivers because all the time I feel like I'm missing some important detail here. It would a lot more productive than all the things that I could hear about my agenda, my work or my intellectual abilities in the past. [ Like I said before I got only interested into them in April this year while doing casual staging cleanups and I'm not affiliated with any distribution vendor. ] Thanks. -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html