On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:16:06 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > I'd like to submit at76_usb driver for inclusion into the kernel. > > The driver's temporary repository is located at > http://git.80211libre.org/at76_usb.git/ > > To compile the driver standalone, just run "make" and "make install". > To integrate the driver into the kernel, apply kernel_patch.diff to the > kernel with -p1 option, then copy at76_usb*.[ch] to drivers/net/wireless Could you send a direct pointer to the patch? And make a patch that creates those at76_usb* files in the correct dir by itself? That will ease the review a lot. > [...] > The biggest change that has not been done is conversion to mac80211. I > believe it's possible, but I don't expect it to happen overnight. Until > then, at76_usb uses its own implementation of 802.11 protocol. Unfortunately, that prevents being accepted to vanilla. I'd suggest to convert the driver to mac80211 and submit it then; otherwise people will tend to look at the code saying "NAK, it contains its own home grown 802.11 stack" only and not to review the driver in depth. Thanks, Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
