On 06.08.2009 11:34, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Orcan Ogetbil<oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:58 AM, drago01 wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>>> I maintain those drivers at RPMFusion. I will be happy beyond >>>> imagination when the staging drivers are marked stable. >>> They won't ever (the rtxxxx Vendor drivers) >> >From my understanding, the staging tree of the kernel contains drivers >> that are being prepared to be included in the main kernel tree[1]. >> Correct me if I'm wrong. >> I'm not quite sure if I could catch what you meant. Are you being >> sarcastic, implying that the rt2xxx staging drivers will stay in the >> staging repo forever? I sure hope not :) Hey! Don't break my hopes! > > The rtxxxx vendor drivers are considered a dead end by the > linux-wireless developers (just try to read the code and you would now > why), the plan is to get rt2800pci and rt2800usb into shape and get > them upstreamed. > > They get no support from the wireless developers at all, Greg added > them to staging because "they are better than no drivers". > > See the linux-wireless list for details. A small "just for your information" in addition to what drago said (which is all afaics correct): Some rough support for newrt ralink usb devices was added for 2.6.31; see http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d53d9e67b55f6a9fc3f836c5c392eb41ce5676f4 for details like this commit-comment: """ Current problems: * Cannot scan 11n AP's * No TX during first minute after association * Broken Hardware encryption """ CU knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
