On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: > hi, > > i read in your blog that the driver "strip" for the metricom radios is > going to be removed from the linux kernel. > as you suggested, i am "speaking up" now, because i am using the driver. > the driver should not be removed and could even be improved, actually > in a very significant way. > the current version (1.3) does not work for the last hardware revision > of the radios which were the ones circulated in larger quantities. > that may be the reason why the driver does (or did) have a quite small > user base. > these radios are available on eBay from time to time, very cheap. > the difference in the hardware is mostly a different length of the > hardware address. > > there is already a patch and documentation from alex belitis [1] for > that, for linux-2.4.1. i also found a different patch [2] that might > be of interest, for 2.5.46. Are you able to refresh these patches for the latest kernel version and send them to me so that we can help bring the code up-to-date? > since the driver is quite small and the starmode concept is quite > unique in wireless networking, i am planning to do some academic work > on the concept during an OS and networking class at the university of > salzburg. > i am not (yet) an experienced kernel programmer and because of that > have problems porting the patch from alex belitis to the current > kernel versions. who could help me with this ? What problems are you having? > the git log lists a lot people plumbing on strip.c, so i am unsure > whom to contact. The linux-wireless mailing list (on the CC:), and the driverdevel list are the best ones. Anyone want to help out here? > [1] http://phobos.illtel.denver.co.us/~abelits/metricom/ > [2] http://www.stillhq.com/linux/patches/2.5.46/cli_sti_removal-001 thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
