netdev - Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

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Message-Id: <20070919.115903.75429061.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:59:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linville@...driver.com
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, dsd@...too.org, kune@...ne-taler.de
Subject: Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400

> This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211),
> a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware.  This driver has proven very
> robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open
> bugzillas for it.  Either the driver works well, or no one as using
> it...given the common availability of the hardware, I have to presume
> the former. :-)
> 
> This driver is mostly a port of zd1211rw to the mac80211
> infrastructure.  In fact, most zd1211rw patches have been mirrored
> directly to this driver for some time.  I considered merely updating
> the existing driver with this code, but I think it is more prudent to
> include this as a separate driver just to avoid confusion.  There is
> some symbol clash between the two drivers, so I add a Kconfig hack
> to ensure that only one or the other is built-in or that this one is
> built as a module.
> 
> The maintainers have identified some (IMHO minor) issues with the
> mac80211 port of this driver.  Some of them are summarized here:
> 
> 	http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/mac80211Issues
> 
> Still, I think we would be better-off having this driver upstream.

Agreed, merged into net-2.6.24, thanks John.
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