netdev - Re: [GIT]: Networking

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Message-Id: <200808061021.56150.IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:21:55 +0200
From:	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > There was going to be the addition of the ath9k wireless driver but
> > there was some fallout that is being worked on right now (linux/list.h
> > changes needed lkml review, ath9k driver triggered some gcc aborts,
> > all kinds of fun stuff :-) so hopefully it will make it in the next
> > pass.  I tried to wait an extra day for it to be resolved, but that
> > was optimistic.
> 
> Talking about wireless driver updates - has anybody looked at the RaLink 
> wireless driver?  It's in the newer EeePC's (901 and 1000), and it 
> actually has a driver from the company which the comments make clear is 
> GPLv2 too, no apparent oddness or anything:
> 
> 	http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0708_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.7.0.0.tar.bz2
> 
> which admittedly apparently has some trivial problems (with a trivial 
> patch as seen at
> 
> 	http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=195429
> 
> I'd love to have that one working, since I have the hardware, and it's 
> actually reasonable (much more so than the original EeePC, in fact). What 
> channels should I go through? Is anybody working on integrating it 
> already?

Like the earlier rt2x00 drivers I am rewriting the driver as released by Ralink and
have put it in the rt2x00lib/mac80211 framework. Most of the code is currently done, and the
last part should be done this week. After that it is a matter of testing and comparing
register values with the Ralink driver for the last tweaks.

I doubt the driver will be ready/stable for 2.6.28, but it should be ready for 2.6.29.

Ivo


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