Re: wireless drivers in staging

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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:03:28AM -0700, Jim Lieb wrote:

> I do have one question:  It appears they are working on just the vt6656 (usb) version.
> Is anyone working on the mini-pci vt6655 in that group?  As a corollary, what is the
> demand for a mini-pci?  Most of that laptops I've seen of late are either using pci-x
> or (more common)using usb for wireless devs. Given its application, if it is not a
> design-in at this point, it may be eclipsed by the usb part.  I am asking this to size
> the legacy base for this part and an opinion as to whether there is demand for the effort.
 
I have no idea about how prevalent the hardware variations are.
But AFAIK, Christoph's team is only working on the USB version.

> BTW, I've been working on the mini-pci part for this latest round (based on a coin flip...).
> If the consensus is to drop the staging driver set but the mini-pci part is still relevant,
> I could move across to working on that in the new driver tree.

That sounds good to me. :-)

John
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