On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:35:42AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:17:30AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > Related: I raised the staging problem already in > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477927 > > as rawhide contained the at76 driver as separate patch > > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/rpms/kernel/devel/linux-2.6-at76.patch?view=markup > > -- but the same driver (with two small changes) also was part of the > > upstream kernel since October/2.6.28-rc as one of the staging drivers: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99e06e372378c5833a0c60274b645dfb2e4a4b08 > > (for more details see bug). > > > > That sounds wrong to me, as > > > > - it's duplicated work > > > > - the at76 staging driver from upstream taints the kernel; the driver > > from our patch doesn't. > > The wireless stuff, I've pretty much deferred to the wireless maintainer, John Linville. > I don't know the backstory behind at76, but it's been lingering for > quite a while, and it would be nice to see it go away yes. > I'm not clear on why this is going through -staging instead of wireless-dev either. at76 looked like it was going to have a working mac80211-based version some time ago. The mac80211 port happened, but it broke the driver... :-( The version in -staging actually came from the Fedora kernel, so enabling it and dropping our patch isn't such a bad idea. I was concerned that the busted mac80211 port of it might come back (and it seem to have done so for now in 2.6.29), so I was leaning against it. (I'm still mostly against that unless we can get the mac80211 port backed-out of 2.6.29...) Now Kalle Valo says he is working on a new mac80211 port of that driver, and that he intends to rename it to avoid confusion. I presume that will get to Linus through my trees when it becomes available and hopefully at76_usb will disappear from -staging then. Does that clear-up anything? :-) John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
