On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 06:14:42PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 09:06:29PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:38:16AM +0000, parthsane@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > On 2014-12-06 17:51, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > >On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:54:29AM +0000, parthsane@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > >>Hi again, > > > >>Please note my new email parthsane@xxxxxxx . Also If you guys don't know > > > >>there's a working source supplied by mediatek for mt7601. Please find > > > >>the > > > >>attached tarball. Also please apply this patch I mentioned about > > > >>earlier. > > > >>It's at https://gist.github.com/Boggartfly/b18bd86b8eb60fabe160 > > > >> > > > >>rt_linux.h has the following path in the driver directory. > > > >> > > > >>/include/os/rt_linux.h > > > >> > > > >>After you replace the patched file everything works and compiles > > > >>successfully!! Any pointers on what should be done to make it kernel > > > >>compatible? > > > > > > > >Let's wait to see if we have a "real" driver support working in the tree > > > >soon before adding this huge driver to staging, where it will take a > > > >long time to clean up and get merged "properly". > > > > > > > >thanks, > > > > > > > >greg k-h > > > > > > Hi Greg, > > > I actually wanted to help out cleaning the driver but I have no idea where > > > to start(my first patch, but I can code). What exactly do you mean by "real" > > > support? If you know someone I could collaborate with them. I really want to > > > help out, but I don't know what you're looking out for. Lemme know. > > > > Let's let the existing rt2x00 driver developers weigh in here. It might > > just be a matter of adding support for the new device to the existing > > driver, and if so, we don't want to add a whole new, horrible vendor > > driver to the kernel tree. If it turns out it's a totally different > > device that doesn't fit into the existing driver infrastructure, then we > > can add the new driver and start from there. > > > > So let's hear what Stanislaw and Helmut say we should do first. > > MT7601 is similar chip like those we already support in the existing > rt2x00 driver, hence support of it should be added there. I'm going to > do this. Ok, that makes sense, anything I can do to test or help out with here? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
