On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:42:22PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Hi, > > > The card I have is a Spectec FCC ID: S2Y-WLAN-11B-G which I believe is > > a SDW-823 and should use the ks7010 driver. > > Sorry, likely not. It is an early SDW-821 and has a MediaTek chipset for > which no driver is known: > https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Spectec_SDW-821_%28MediaTek%29 > > For SDW-821 (SD size) and KS7010, you'd need a "S2Y-WLAN-11G-K" (but I > have never seen one yet): > https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Spectec_SDW-821_%28KeyStream%29 > > One can find an SDW-823 (microSD) "S2Y-MWLAN-11B-G" once in a while: > https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Spectec_SDW-823 > > > > Without the CFG80211 conversion, replacing the Michael custom > > > implementation with the in-kernel one makes the driver a tad better and > > > is good exercise. However, it will sadly not help to get the driver out > > > of staging. > > > > I'll drop it then. Could you please tell me, is there any thing else > > more I need to do to let LKML know that this RFC is dropped? Or is > > this reply enough. I don't want to use any ones time unnecessarily. > > That should do. > > > Let's go for a CFG80211 driver and get out of staging :) So next step > > is I guess study the ath6kl driver, learn how CFG80211 is done and > > implement that interface in ks7010? Oh, and test that it works. > > Yes, have a look around and check if you like that task. I might have a > spare SDW-823 lying around if you are up to it. But check first, it is > not a trivial task. On the pro side, there are tons of interesting > things about WiFI and kernel development to learn on the way :) Hi Wolfram, After receiving this email a while back I spent a day or two trying to get started on the cfg80211 conversion. I was unable to make progress so I decided to spend some time cleaning up the WEXT interface and learning more about the driver (and wifi in general). As you may have seen, a series was just merged refactoring the SDIO code, and there is a series in flight refactoring the host interface code. I started working on ks_wlan_net.c and will likely put together a patch set next week if the hostif series gets merged. At this stage, I think I have a fair handle on how the ks7010 driver functions. I have two ideas on how to continue. First, I think it may be time to do some testing and fix all of the bugs I have introduced over this last month :). This is the reason for this email. Can I please take you up on the offer of the SDW-823 card, if you can find it? Secondly, I think I should spend some time studying the mwifiex (SoftMAC) and ath6kl (FullMAC) drivers to get a handle on cfg80211. Then I can have another crack at the ks7010 cfg80211 conversion. Do you have any other data on the chipset? Have you had any interaction with Renesas? Sorry to write you such a long email. Thanks for taking the time to read it. Regards, Tobin.
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