netdev - Re: Please pull 'rt2x00' branch of wireless-2.6

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:31:19 +0200
From:	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'rt2x00' branch of wireless-2.6

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
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