linux-kernel - Re: Current status of rt2800usb and staging/rt2870

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Message-Id: <1255485175.7115.5.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:52:55 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	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, 2009-10-13 at 21:21 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 20:17:47 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 17:52:52 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I am going to merge rt2800pci soon as well and after that I'll send a patch
> > > 
> > > Great, I've been waiting for this for a long time.
> > > 
> > > > to remove all Ralink drivers from the staging tree.
> > > 
> > > Till new drivers obtain support for all hardware currently covered by
> > > the unified staging drivers the latter shouldn't be removed as they
> > > serve well their role as a temporary solution allowing real Linux users
> > > to user their real hardware and as a reference material for developers
> > > willing to work on adding the missing bits to new drivers.
> > 
> > The rt2800pci and rt2800usb drivers cover support for rt2860/rt2870/rt3070 devices,
> > which are present as individual drivers in the staging tree. So far it only managed
> 
> There are no longer individual drivers.
> 
> Instead there is one shared source code and two device drivers:
> 
> - rt2860 covering RT2860 and RT3090 devices
> 
> - rt2870 covering RT2870 and RT3070 devices
> 
> In comparison rt2800usb currently lacks RT3070 support and rt2800pci's
> RT3090 support is basic at best (not to mention that it didn't work for
> RT2860 last time that I tried)..

(or RT2870 here)

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