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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:14:06 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> To: Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@...il.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>, Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>, Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Current status of rt2800usb and staging/rt2870 On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Luis Correia wrote: > Since some days now, we have someone in the team which works for > Ralink, I'm hopefull that he can find some time to help us make the > driver better. This (I hope) is the future. If we can get the vendors to cooperate with us at this level then we can eliminate the vendor/upstream driver distinction. While I try to be ambivalent about drivers/staging, I _do_ think that it tends to enable vendors to get aways with _less_ support of the community by facilitating them in taking advantage of the "pragmatic" among us. > And now, i'm going back to my lovely hole, having added nothing to > this conversation. I disagree! :-) John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@...driver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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